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The broad purpose of the Living with China project is to ascertain how China’s neighbors have responded to its rise and what explains their response. But a particular and distinctive aim of this project is to examine these responses with the prism of crisis management. Such a focus is justified not only because, as the Introduction to the volume notes, it is a relatively understudied aspect of the burgeoning literature on China’s relations with its neighbors, but also because it helps us understand three things that the more general assessments of the relationship tend to obscure.2
1. Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations at American University in Washington DC. He was Director of the Center for Global Governance Studies, University of Bristol, United Kingdom. He thanks Tang Shiping and Li Mingjiang for their comments on an earlier draft.
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M. Taylor Fravel, “Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China’s Compromises in Territorial Disputes” International Security, Vol. 30 No. 2 pp. 46–83 (Fall 2005).
On the limits of the government’s ability to control public anger, see Peter H. Gries, “Tears of Rage: Chinese Nationalist Reactions to the Belgrade Embassy Bombing” The China Journal, No. 46 pp. 25–43 (July, 2001).
I use the term “bandwagoning” in the conventional usage, meaning joining the stronger coalition or the side that appears likely to win. This conventional sense was pointed out by Randall Schweller in his critique of Stephen Walt’s definition of bandwagoning as “giving in to threats,” However, Schweller made an unnecessary restriction by distinguishing between the two meanings, rather than subsuming Walt’s concept. See Stephen M. Walt, The Origins of Alliance, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987;
Randall L. Schweller, “Bandwagoning for Profit: Bringing the Revisionist State Back In” International Security, Vol. 19 No. 1 pp. 72–107 (Summer 1994).
Cries on the relative loss of American influence have been too numerous. See, for example, Jason T. Shaplen and James Laney, “Washington’s Eastern Sunset; The Decline of U.S. Power in Northeast Asia” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 86 No. 6 pp. 82–97 (November/December, 2007);
Victor Cha, “Winning Asia” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 86 No. 6 pp. 98–113 (November/December, 2007); Joseph Nye Jr., “The Rise of China’s Soft Power,” Wall Street Journal Asia (December 29, 2005).
Robert Sutter, China’s Rise: Implications for U.S. Leadership in Asia. Policy Studies 21, Washington: East-West Center Washington, 2006, available at http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs//PS021.pdf.
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Acharya, A. (2009). Conclusion: Living with China, but Loving It?. In: Tang, S., Li, M., Acharya, A. (eds) Living with China. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230622623_14
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