CONTENTS

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I

INTEREST AND IDENTITY IN CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY

1.   What Drives Chinese Foreign Policy?

2.   Who Runs Chinese Foreign Policy?

PART II

SECURITY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES

3.   Life on the Hinge: China’s Russia Policy During the Cold War and After

4.   Deciphering the U.S. Threat

5.   The Northeast Asia Regional System: Japan and the Two Koreas

6.   China’s Other Neighbors: The Asia-Pacific

7.   China in the Fourth Ring

PART III

HOLDING TOGETHER: TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND FOREIGN POLICY

8.   Problems of Stateness: Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

9.   Taiwan’s Democratic Transition and China’s Response

PART IV

INSTRUMENTS OF POWER

10.   Dilemmas of Opening: Power and Vulnerability in the Global Economy

11.   Military Modernization: From People’s War to Power Projection

12.   Soft Power and Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Policy

PART V

CONCLUSION

13.   Threat or Equilibrium?

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index