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Aquestion increasingly asked by professional China watchers and policy officials—and even casual observers of China—is, what role will China be playing in world politics over the next twenty years? This interest is hardly surprising given the rapidly growing economic, political, and security importance of contemporary China. The question is usually phrased in terms of what China’s strategic intentions will be as its material capabilities increase to enable it to choose more freely its international path.
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For further elaboration on revisionist power, see Randall L. Schweller, “Bandwagoning for Profit: Bringing the Revisionist State Back In,” International Security 19, no. 1 (Summer 1994): 86–88.
See, for example, Avery Goldstein, Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005);
Bates Gill, Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2007); Bonnie Glaser and Evan S. Medeiros, “The Changing Ecology of Foreign Policy-Making in China: The Ascension and Demise of the Theory of ‘Peaceful Rise,” The China Quarterly, June 2007, 190.
Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert Ross, eds., Engaging China: The Management ofan Emerging Power (New York: Routledge, 1999);
Alice D. Ba, “Who’s Socialising Whom? Complex Engagement in Sino-ASEAN Relations,” The Pacific Review 19, no. 2 (June 2006): 157–79.
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Kerr, P. (2008). Introduction: Debating China’s Diplomatic Role in World Politics. In: Kerr, P., Harris, S., Qin, Y. (eds) China’s “New” Diplomacy. Palgrave Series in Asian Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-61692-9_1
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