Will China's Rise Be Peaceful?: Security, Stabilit Format: Paperback

As the rest of the world worries about China's economic prospects, Will China's Rise be Peaceful? worries about the effect a more powerful China will have on international peace and stability. Bringing together the work of seasoned experts and younger scholars, this volume offers an inclusive examination of the effects of historical patterns-whether interrupted or intact-by the rise of China. The authors argues that the most populous nation ion the globe-and its second largest economy-may continue to rise peacefully, but that powerful internal and external factors work against this.

Asle Toje (b. 1974) is the Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. Toje's research interests are found at the intersection of security studies and European studies. Since Toje graduated from Cambridge University in 2006, Toje has published widely on European security and international politics. Among his last works are America, the EU and Strategic Culture (London, Routledge); The European Union as a Small Power (London, Macmillan, 2010) and Neoclassical realism in Europe (Manchester University Press, 2012). He has also authored a trilogy in Norwegian on the economic and political crisis in Europe: Red, White & Blue, The Iron Cage & Culture War (Dreyer 2012, 2014, 2017)