China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided
engagement in international organizations to one that is now
embracing them. These moves present a new challenge to
international relations theory. How will the global community be
affected by the engagement of this massive global power with
international institutions? This new study explores why China has
chosen to abandon its previous doctrine of institutional isolation
and details how it is currently unable to balance American power
unilaterally and details an indirect path to greater power. In
addition, it includes the first major analysis of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization, comprising China, Russia and most of
Central Asia. In contrast to many works on the "rise of China"
question, which place an emphasis on her material goods and powers,
this book delivers a new approach. It shows how the unique barriers
Beijing is facing are preventing the country from taking the
traditional paths of territorial expansion and political-economic
domination in order to develop as a great power. One of these
barriers is the United States and its inherent military and
economic strength. The other is the existence of nuclear weapons,
which makes direct great power conflict unacceptably costly. China
has therefore opted for a new path, using institutions as stepping
stones to great power status. This book will be of great interest
to students and scholars of international relations, world
politics, world history and Asia.
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