Negotiating Asymmetry - China's Place in Asia (Paperback, New)

Though wary of China's rapid rise, her neighbors have considerable experience of dealing with unequal power without surrendering their autonomy. For its part, China has a long memory of unequal or "tributary" relations and a relatively brief and turbulent experience of working within the current useful fiction of "sovereign equality" in international relations. The emerging pattern will have to take account of the great discrepancy in economic and military power between the future China and her neighbours, and of how such asymmetry can be managed peacefully. Negotiating Asymmetry explores how the real or imagined norms governing past relations may shape China's future position in the region by considering how relationships have changed over the past two centuries. The volume argues that neither the "Chinese world order" of tribute relations nor the Westphalia model of sovereign equality ever operated effectively in Asia, but suggests that the past does offer strong indicators about the shape of a new order in Asia.

General

Imprint:	University of Hawaii Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	August 2009
Editors:	Anthony Reid • Yangwen Zheng
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	266
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8248-3412-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8248-3412-7
Barcode:	9780824834128

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