Contents China and the Future Status Quo 115 Brantly Womack Finlandization and the Peaceful Development of China 139 Timo Kivimaki The Motivation Behind China’s Public Diplomacy 167 Zhao Kejin Confuc...

Contents China’s Quest for Grand Strategy: Power, National Interest, or Relational Security? 1 Chih-yu Shih and Chiung-chiu Huang The Political Economy of Inward FDI: Opposition to Chinese Mergers an...

Contents The Logic and Contradictions of ‘Peaceful Rise/Development’ as China’s Grand Strategy 381 Barry Buzan Soft Power and Global Governance with Chinese Characteristics 421 Timo Kivimaki Taming...

Contents Continuity through Change: Background Knowledge and China’s International Strategy 285 Qin Yaqing International Society and China: The Power of Norms and the Norms of Power 315 Ian Clark P...

Contents From Keeping a Low Profile to Striving for Achievement 153 Xuetong Yan Rising Powers, Status Ambitions, and the Need to Reassure: What China Could Learn from Imperial Germany’s Failures 185...

Contents The English and Chinese Schools of International Relations: Comparisons and Lessons 1 Wang Jiangli and Barry Buzan The Assertive China Narrative: Why It Is Wrong and How So Many Still Bought...