The Making of China's Foreign Policy in the 21st century : Historical Sources, Institutions/Players, and Perceptions of Power Relations (Paperback)

Part I: Historical Sources 1. Rethinking the Chinese World Order: The Imperial Cycle and Rise of China  2. History, Tradition and the China Dream: Socialist Modernization in the World of Great Harmony  3. The Tenacious Tributary System  4. The ‘Tianxia Trope’: Can China Change the International System?  5. Glorious Memory of Imperial China and the Rise of Chinese Populist Nationalism  Part II: Institutions and Players  6. Xi Jinping: Seizing the Commanding Heights and China’s National Security Commission  7. China´s Foreign Policy Think Tanks:Institutional Evolution and Changing Roles  8. Towards an Integrated Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy: Bringing Leadership Personality Back In  9. The PLA and Diplomacy: Unraveling Some Myths about Civil-Military Interaction in Chinese Foreign Policy-Making  10. Chinese media and foreign policy  11. Local Liberalism: China's Provincial Approaches to Relations with Southeast Asia  Part III: Chinese Perceptions of Power Relations  12. How (Dis)Satified is China? A Power Transition Theory Perspective  13. Chinese Perceptions of US Return to Southeast Asia and the Prospect of China’s Peaceful Rise 14. China’s Evolving Views of the Korean-American Alliance, 1953-2012  15. An Emerging Consensus on the US Threat--The United States According to PLA Officers 16. The Chinese Perceptions of the European Union