From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has
evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose
power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of
possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path from the 1949
revolution to the present has been filled with twists and turns,
including internal upheavals, a dramatic break with the Soviet
Union, the 1989 revolution wave, and various wars and quasi-wars
against India, the USSR, Vietnam, and South Korea. Throughout it
all, international pressures have been omnipresent, forcing the
regime to periodically shift course. In short, the evolution of the
PROC in world politics is an epic story and one of the most
important developments in modern world history. Yet to date, there
has been no authoritative history of China's foreign relations.
John Garver's monumental China's Quest not only addresses this gap;
it will almost certainly serve as the definitive work on the topic
for years to come. Garver, one of the world's leading scholars of
Chinese foreign policy, covers a vast amount of ground and threads
a core argument through the entirety of his account: domestic
political concerns-regime survival in particular-have been the
primary force driving the People's Republic's foreign policy
agenda. The objective of communist regime survival, he argues,
transcends the more rudimentary pursuit of national interests that
realists focus on. Indeed, from 1949 onward, domestic politics has
been integral to the PROC's foreign policy choices. Over the
decades, the regime's decisions in the realm of international
politics have been dictated concerns about internal stability. In
the early days of the regime, Mao and other part leaders were
concerned with surviving in the face of American aggression. Later,
they came to see the post-Stalinist Soviet model as a threat to
their revolutionary program and initiated a stunning break with
Khrushchev regime. Finally, the collapse of other communist regimes
in and after 1989 radically altered their relationships with
capitalist powers, and again preserving regime stability in a world
where communism has been largely abandoned became paramount.
China's Quest, the result of over a decade of research, writing,
and analysis, is both sweeping in breadth and encyclopedic in
detail. Quite simply, it will be essential for any student or
scholar with a strong interest in China's foreign policy.
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