When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically asserted its role as an emerging world power -- a position it is not likely to relinquish anytime soon. China's growing economy, military reforms, and staggering productivity have contributed to its ascendancy as a major player in international affairs. Western scholars have attempted to explain Chinese foreign policy using historical or theoretical evidence, but until this volume, few studies from a Chinese perspective have been published in English.

In Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power, editors Yufan Hao, C. X. George Wei, and Lowell Dittmer reveal how Chinese scholars view their nation's rise to global dominance. Drawing from a wealth of foreign relations experts including scholars native to the region, this volume examines the unique challenges China faces as it adapts in its role as a world leader, and it analyzes how China's evolving international relationships are shaping the global landscape of the twenty-first century.

About the Author
Yufan Hao is assistant professor of political science at Colgate University. C. X. George Wei is professor of law at Singapore Management University. Lowell Dittmer is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley.


Book Information
ISBN 9780813125299
Author Yufan Hao
Format Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint The University Press of Kentucky
Publisher The University Press of Kentucky