Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy

When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically asserted its role as an emerging world power―a position it is not likely to relinquish anytime soon. China's growing economy, military reforms, and staggering productivity have contributed to its ascendancy as a major player in international affairs. Western scholars have attempted to explain Chinese foreign policy using historical or theoretical evidence, but until this volume, few studies from a Chinese perspective have been published in English.

In Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power, editors Yufan Hao, C. X. George Wei, and Lowell Dittmer reveal how Chinese scholars view their nation's rise to global dominance. Drawing from a wealth of foreign relations experts including scholars native to the region, this volume examines the unique challenges China faces as it adapts in its role as a world leader, and it analyzes how China's evolving international relationships are shaping the global landscape of the twenty-first century.

Yufan Hao is professor of political science at Colgate University, as well as professor and dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, the University of Macau.

George Wei is associate professor of history at Susquehanna University, PA, as well as associate professor and coordinator of the History Program, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, the University of Macau.

Lowell Dittmer is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley.