Multilateral Approach in China's Foreign Policy

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Since the mid-1990s, the Chinese authorities have gradually come to embrace multilateralism to realize their basic foreign policy objectives in maintaining a peaceful international environment and enhancing China's international status and influence. This embrace is largely based on pragmatic considerations. There is no denial, however, that elements of liberalism and constructivism gradually enter into the considerations of Chinese leaders. They accept, for example, that non-traditional security issues can only be tackled through genuine multilateralism. This volume carefully examines China's increased participation in multilateral organizations and mechanisms and its efforts to initiate and develop its own discourses on global affairs straddling Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Latin American continents. China's presence in international multilateral organizations has been providing developing countries a better chance to maintain a balance of power. Since China has no ambitious plan to transform the existing international order, its increasing enthusiastic engagement of multilateralism is likely to be accepted by the international community.

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• Preface
• About the Author
• List of Tables
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Multilateralism — Theoretical Issues and China's Approach in Foreign Policy
• China in Asia:
  • China's Asian Policy in the Early Twenty-First Century: Adjusting to its Increasing Strength
  • China's Regional Strategy and Challenges in East Asia
  • China's ASEAN Policy in the 1990s: Pushing for Regional Multi-polarity
  • The Path of Least Resistance: China's Way of Engagement in Southeast Asia
  • The ASEAN-China Free Trade Area — Success or Failure? A Preliminary Evaluation Based on Econometric Evidence
  • China-ASEAN Economic Co-Operation and the Role of Provinces
• China and the World:
  • The Shanghai Co-Operation Organisation: China's Initiative in Regional Institutional Building
  • China's Approach to Shanghai Co-operation Organisation: Institutional Building, Economic Co-operation and the Challenge from Afghanistan
  • China's Relations with the Gulf Co-operation Council States: Multi-level Diplomacy in a Divided Arab World
  • China's Approach to BRICS
  • Latin America in China's Contemporary Foreign Policy
  • China's African Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
• Bibliography
• Index

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--> Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in China's foreign policy. -->
Keywords:Multilateralism;China;Foreign Policy;International RelationsReview: Key Features:

• It is a valuable reference book for undergraduate students, postgraduate students and scholars in the fields of China's foreign policy and international relations in the Asia-Pacific
• It is a most up-to-date account of China's approaches to its most significant multilateral regional organizations and forums
• In view of China's importance in international politics and economy, it is important to understand its policy