Volume 18, Issue 2, Summer 2025

Balancing Away from War: How the USA and China Can Side-step the Thucydides’ Trap

Michael C Desch

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 18, Issue 2, 2025, Pages 151–172, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poaf001


Challenging Popular Narratives: The Course of Power Transition and Sino–US Relations

Xiaolin Duan

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 18, Issue 2, 2025, Pages 173–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poaf002


Bundling Threats: Why Dominant Perceptions of China Changed in Europe

Shaun Breslin, Mikael Mattlin

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 18, Issue 2, 2025, Pages 196–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poaf003


Beyond Balancing: Australia’s Dual-track China Policy

Lisha Chen, Baohui Zhang

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 18, Issue 2, 2025, Pages 220–245, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poaf004


Rethinking East Asia’s Historical Order: Heterarchy in China–Southeast Asia Relations

Tommy S H Chai

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 18, Issue 2, 2025, Pages 246–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poaf005