The Making of China's Foreign Policy in the 21st century

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.

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