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Studies in Asian Security Studies in Asian Security
Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era
Format
cloth
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ISBN
0-8047-5060-2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unifying China, Integrating with the World is the third book in the Studies in Asian Security series sponsored by the East-West Center and published by Stanford University Press. This book contends that sovereignty, and more directly the extent to which it creates walls between any given state and other actors in the international system, lies at the core of China's foreign relations during the reform era. Through a comprehensive survey of both Chinese and English-language sources, the author shows that during this period China's stance changed in unexpected ways, and argues that such shifts were products of the evolving relationship between deeply entrenched sovereignty-centric values within China, new self-interests created by Deng Xiaoping's emphasis on reform and opening, and the subsequent set of external pressures for change inadvertently brought to bear on China during the last two decades. The key point of interest for generalists is why the Chinese position evolved as it did and what the implications of this change are for the "new sovereignty" debate. For China watchers the book's findings are compelling, since they challenge the current conventional wisdom in the field. Chinese sovereignty is not as unyielding and monolithic as is commonly asserted.

 

 

 

Details and ordering information at

 

Stanford University Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents
Introduction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Reconsidering Sovereignty's Role in International Politics
  2. Locating and Explaining State Approaches: Defining Sovereignty after Recognition and Turning to the China Case
  3. Territorial Sovereignty: De-emphasizing Lost Territory and Securing New BOrders
  4. Jurisdictional Sovereignty: Ensuring Taiwan and Tibet Are Part of China
  5. Sovereign Authority: Limiting International Oversight and Resisting Interference in Internal Affairs
  6. Economic Sovereignty: Accelerating Integration and Accumulating Obligations

 

 

 

 

Conclusion: Intransigence and Change -- The Chinese Battle to Secure Sovereignty in a Changing World
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unifying China, Integrating with the World is the third book in the Studies in Asian Security series sponsored by the East-West Center and published by Stanford University Press. This book contends that sovereignty, and more directly the extent to which it creates walls between any given state and other actors in the international system, lies at the core of China's foreign relations during the reform era. Through a comprehensive survey of both Chinese and English-language sources, the author shows that during this period China's stance changed in unexpected ways, and argues that such shifts were products of the evolving relationship between deeply entrenched sovereignty-centric values within China, new self-interests created by Deng Xiaoping's emphasis on reform and opening, and the subsequent set of external pressures for change inadvertently brought to bear on China during the last two decades. The key point of interest for generalists is why the Chinese position evolved as it did and what the implications of this change are for the "new sovereignty" debate. For China watchers the book's findings are compelling, since they challenge the current conventional wisdom in the field. Chinese sovereignty is not as unyielding and monolithic as is commonly asserted.

 

 

 

Details and ordering information at

 

Stanford University Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents
Introduction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Reconsidering Sovereignty's Role in International Politics
  2. Locating and Explaining State Approaches: Defining Sovereignty after Recognition and Turning to the China Case
  3. Territorial Sovereignty: De-emphasizing Lost Territory and Securing New BOrders
  4. Jurisdictional Sovereignty: Ensuring Taiwan and Tibet Are Part of China
  5. Sovereign Authority: Limiting International Oversight and Resisting Interference in Internal Affairs
  6. Economic Sovereignty: Accelerating Integration and Accumulating Obligations

 

 

 

 

Conclusion: Intransigence and Change -- The Chinese Battle to Secure Sovereignty in a Changing World