Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Theoretical concepts and China's roles -- 1. Role theory and the study of Chinese foreign policy -- International roles -- International roles and identities -- The process of self-identification -- The historical self in the process of self-identification -- Domestic contestation and international role taking -- Altercasting as international role taking and international social structure making -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. Historical narrative, remembrance, and the ordering of the world: a historical assessment of China's international relations -- Introduction -- Cultural identification and "All-under-Heaven" -- Engaging "All-under-Heaven" -- All-under-Heaven" challenged: cultural self-identification exchanged for political self-identification -- Reintroducing "All-under-Heaven": political self-identification exchanged for cultural self-identification? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. China's historical self and its international role -- China's international role: the dynamics of historical self-identification -- China's historical self and role taking: case studies -- Conclusion and outlook -- Notes -- References -- 4. The identity and international role of China: relational grand strategy -- Two sources of role conception -- Identity-based grand strategy style -- Relationship-based grand strategy style -- Core national interests that weren't -- The volatile Taiwan issue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5. Philosophy, identity, and role theory with "Chinese characteristics" -- Role theory "with Chinese characteristics" -- China's roles in East Asia: three case studies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: China's International Roles: the global context.

6. The US and China: altercast roles and changing power in the 20th century -- Introduction -- A foreign policy role theory approach to altercasting -- The US Open Door policy: China as protectee -- Deng Xiaoping and beyond: great power, troubled modernizer, failed modernizer -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7. China's role in the transformation of the international system -- The debates on China's international role -- The two-sided construction of international roles -- The current international system and China -- Notes -- References -- 8. China's roles in international institutions: the case of global economic governance -- Introduction -- Contested national role conceptions and role taking and role making in global economic governance -- China and global economic governance: domestic and foreign contestation of China's role conception -- China's emerging pro-active role in the WTO: from a passive to a more pro-active role in GEG -- China in the G20: high-flying external expectations, low key focused leadership -- Testing alternative leadership role(s): China in the BRICS -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 9. Finding a new role in the East Asian financial order: China's hesitant turn towards leadership -- Factors shaping role taking and making in in financial regionalism -- China's emerging regional role in and after the Asian financial crisis -- The evolving Chiang Mai Initiative: leadership competition and hidden hierarchy -- From the Global Financial Crisis to the Chiang Mai Initiative multilateralization: China taking over? -- Beyond CMIM: the future of Chinese leadership in East Asian financial regionalism -- Notes -- References -- Part III: China's International Roles: the regional context -- 10. China and socialist countries: role change and role continuity -- Introduction -- Analytical framework -- Case studies -- Conclusion.

Notes -- References -- 11. China and Japan: partner, rival, and enemy? -- Introduction -- Role-making and role-taking in Sino-Japanese relations -- The China factor in Japan's newly evolving security system -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 12. China's changing role in its all-weather friendship with Africa -- Introduction -- China's historical self: leader of the Third World -- Political relations between Africa and China -- PRC-African economic relations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13. China and the EU: trade and national role conceptions -- Conceptualizing China-EU Relations -- National role conceptions and the study of China-EU relations -- China-EU trade relations and trade disputes -- Contested roles and China-EU trade relations -- China's national role conception and the shaping of the China-EU strategic partnership -- Notes -- References -- 14. China's role evolution: domestic imperatives and foreign expectations -- Historical self-identification and domestic role expectations -- Domestic political economy and domestic expectations -- China's international role and altercasting -- China's evolving international role and the current international order -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Tracing the links between domestic and external expectations in the Peoples Republic of China's role conception and preferred engagement patterns in world politics, this book provides a systematic account of changes in China's role and the mechanisms of role taking. Individual chapters address the impact of China's history and identity on its bilateral role taking patterns with the United States, Japan, Africa, the Europe Union, and Socialist States as well as China's role in international institutions, the G-20, and East Asia's Financial Order.

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