Fractured China : how state transformation is shaping China's rise / Lee Jones, Shahar Hameiri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Lee, 1981- author.

Hameiri, Shahar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Political aspects--China.

Capitalism.

Globalization--Political aspects--China.

Globalization.

China--Economic policy--2000-.

China.

China--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation - the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses - have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese behaviour abroad is often not the product of a coherent grand strategy, but results from a sometimes-chaotic struggle for power and resources among contending politico-business interests, within a surprisingly permissive Chinese-style regulatory state. Presenting a path-breaking new analytical framework, Fractured China transforms the central debate in International Relations and provides new tools for scholars and policymakers seeking to understand and respond to twenty-first century rising powers. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in China and Southeast Asia, it includes three major case studies - the South China Sea, non-traditional security cooperation, and development financing-to demonstrate the framework's explanatory power.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

China's Rise: The Misguided Statism of Existing Debates

Structure of the Book

1 State Transformation and Chinese Foreign Policy

The Social Basis of China's State Transformation

The Transformation of China's Party-State

Theorising Foreign Policy amid State Transformation

The Impact of Chinese Engagements on Other Countries

Notes on Method

Predictable Objections

2 State Transformation and the South China Sea

China's Maritime Actors and Institutions

Regulating Chinese Conduct in the South China Sea

Maritime Actors and the Struggle between 'Stability' and 'Rights'

Xi's Reforms: Activating Regulatory Mechanisms

Conclusion

3 Chinese Non-Traditional Security Governance in the Greater Mekong Subregion

The Transformation of Security in China

State Transformation and China's Counter-Narcotics Governance

China's Opium Substitution Programmes in Myanmar and Laos

Protecting Chinese Economic Interests and Citizens on the Mekong

China's Governance Frontier on the Mekong

4 China's International Development Financing

Existing Perspectives on Chinese Development Financing

State Transformation and China's International Development Financing

China's Development Financing in Action

Key Findings

Lessons for Policymakers

Postscript: State Transformation and COVID-19

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Oct 2021).

ISBN:

9781009051620

1009051628

9781009051477

1009051474

9781009047487

1009047485

OCLC:

1492992307