Zhiqun Zhu Livres

The book offers a comprehensive analysis of China's current challenges, including a rigid political system, uneven economic growth, and social instability. It stems from an international conference celebrating the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China and features contributions from experts across various fields. Each chapter delves into interconnected issues such as environmental degradation, ethnic tensions, and military modernization. The work emphasizes the necessity for sustainable growth and aims to enhance understanding of China's quest for global respect and influence.

Focusing on China's global initiatives, this revised edition explores its strategies in regions like the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, emphasizing resource acquisition, trade expansion, and the enhancement of soft power. It evaluates the political and economic impacts of China's actions on these areas and examines international responses, particularly from the United States. The book addresses ongoing questions about Chinese foreign policy and its implications for global interdependence, providing insights into the evolving dynamics of international relations.

The book offers a detailed analysis of the potential power transition from the US to China, emphasizing strategies for managing this shift peacefully. It presents original research and practical recommendations, making it a crucial resource for scholars interested in US and Chinese foreign policy, as well as broader themes in world politics and international relations.

Revised and Expanded Second Edition. Concise yet comprehensive, Zhiqun Zhu's book is the perfect introduction to the political economy of East Asia for undergraduate and advanced high school classes. Zhu's analysis of the economic 'miracles' of Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan takes into account both domestic factors and the international environment, and is sensitive to the similarities as well as differences between the developmental experiences of these nations. Zhu raises important related issues such as the connections between economic development and democratization, the relative economic contributions of the state and the market, and the portability of the East Asian developmental model. East Asia's diverse but dynamic experience is valuable precisely because it demonstrates that developing nations need not follow a single approach to prosperity. An excellent book to assign for courses on Asia.

China emerged as a major economic, diplomatic, and military power during the critical decade from 2008 to 2018. As a result, China's foreign policy has become more active and dynamic. This book provides a unique perspective to understand Chinese foreign policy during this decade by examining continuities and changes in both internal and external factors that have shaped China's development. The book focuses on key challenges in China's diplomacy such as US-China relations, the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Japan, India, Chinese investment overseas, the Belt and Road Initiative, global and regional cooperation, soft power, etc. It also includes an extensive annotated bibliography of major recent publications on various aspects of Chinese foreign policy. This is the first scholarly book that studies the evolution and key challenges of China's foreign relations during the critical decade (2008-2018) when China grew into a crucial, sometimes assertive, power in international affairs.