National Role Conception and Neoclassical Realism : A Synthetic Exploration of the Sino-Soviet Alignment (Hardcover)

Introduction??Part 1. Key concepts??Chapter 1. Reviewing the Sino-Soviet relationship.? Chapter 2. Theoretical development.? Chapter 3. Methodology.??Part 2. The Sino-Soviet split??Chapter 4: The quarrelling brothers: China’s evolving national role conception in the socialist bloc, 1956?1960.? Chapter 5: Towards the split: China’s changing roles and the struggle for communist leadership, 1960?1966??Part 3. The Sino-Soviet Normalisation??Chapter 6: Defining ‘normalisation’: China’s modernisation and Sino-Soviet rapprochement.??Chapter 7: ‘Farewell to the past’: the road to normalisation, 1986?1989.? Epilogue: Before the smoking gun: bridging causation across multi-level factors