The Chinese century? : the challenge to global order / David Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, David, 1952-

Series:

Global issues series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Global issues series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Foreign relations.

China.

International relations.

China--Foreign economic relations.

International economic relations.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Physical Description:

ix, 188 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

China's impact on the world is likely to be one of the biggest ongoing headline stories for the coming century. This book looks ahead, to consider the most likely results of this mutual encounter between China and the international system. How will they affect each other? The book goes beyond traditional military-security matters in various ways. Firstly, it brings in the likely impact of China's economic rise for the coming decades. Secondly, it also brings in environmental matters, an emerging soft-security issue for China and the world, alongside the traditional economic and military-security issues. Finally, this book also believes that images matter in international relations. Consequently, soft-power questions of culture and of perceptions are also considered as well as the more traditional hard-power economic and military issues. Underpinning the whole book is the question, will the twenty-first century be 'China's Century', for China and for the world?

Contents:

Chinese and Western Name Order Usage ix

1 Frameworks for the Century 1

1.1 Futurology - speculators and strategists 2

1.2 IR models and paradigms 5

1.3 China's 'Rise', 'Peaceful Rise' and 'Peaceful Development' 14

1.4 China's 'Power', 'Grand Strategy' and 'Century' 22

2 China's Security-Military Challenges 28

2.1 China's security imperatives and military doctrines 28

2.2 China's projection on land and sea, in air and space 39

3 China's Economic and Environmental Challenges 51

3.1 China's economic challenges in the face of the world 51

3.2 The world's economic challenges in the face of China 58

3.3 Energy politics 63

3.4 Environmental challenges 70

4 China's Ideational Challenge 77

4.1 China's 'ideological' challenge 77

4.2 China's 'cultural' challenge 85

4.3 China's cyber challenge 92

5 'Internal' Challenges for China 102

5.1 Democratisation 102

5.2 Territorial integrity 116

6 'External' Challenges for China 129

6.1 Sino-European challenges 129

6.2 Sino-Russian challenges 134

6.3 Sino-Indian challenges 139

6.4 Sino-Japanese challenges 145

6.5 Sino-American challenges 150.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-184) and index.

ISBN:

9780230537071

0230537073

OCLC:

229467397