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This book provides a glimpse into the different emergent borderland
prototypes in East and Southeast Asia, with illustrative cases and
discussions. Asia has contained a number of reactivated border
zones since the end of the Cold War, borders which have witnessed
ever greater human activity, concerning trade, commerce, tourism,
and other forms of money-related activities such as shopping,
gambling and job-seeking. Through seven borderland cases, the
contributors to this volume analyse how the changing political
economy and the regional and international politics of Asia have
shaped and reshaped borderland relations and produced a few
essential prototypes of borderland in Asia, such as reopened
borders and re-activated economic zones; reintegrated but
"separated" border cities; porous borderlands; and abstruse
borderlands. This book aims to bring about further discussions of
borderland development and governance, and how these actually
inform and shape state-state and state-city relations across
borders and regional politics. This book was originally published
as a special issue of Asian Anthropology.
This book provides a glimpse into the different emergent borderland
prototypes in East and Southeast Asia, with illustrative cases and
discussions. Asia has contained a number of reactivated border
zones since the end of the Cold War, borders which have witnessed
ever greater human activity, concerning trade, commerce, tourism,
and other forms of money-related activities such as shopping,
gambling and job-seeking. Through seven borderland cases, the
contributors to this volume analyse how the changing political
economy and the regional and international politics of Asia have
shaped and reshaped borderland relations and produced a few
essential prototypes of borderland in Asia, such as reopened
borders and re-activated economic zones; reintegrated but
"separated" border cities; porous borderlands; and abstruse
borderlands. This book aims to bring about further discussions of
borderland development and governance, and how these actually
inform and shape state-state and state-city relations across
borders and regional politics. This book was originally published
as a special issue of Asian Anthropology.
China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political
distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we
readily paste labels communist, non-Western, developing country but
whose internal logic remains a mystery to us. Arguing that it would
be a major step forward in our genuine knowledge of China if we
understood its internal dynamic, this innovative book considers
China from a historical perspective to chart its current dynamic
and future direction. Renowned historians, economists, and
political scientists explore the internal dynamic of China's rise
since traditional times through the key themes of China's identity,
security, economy, environment, energy, and politics. Each themed
section pairs a historian with a social scientist to give an
overall view of where China is coming from and where it is heading.
One of the PRC's best-known experts on international relations
provides a concluding reflection on the political psychology of
China's view of itself in the world. Although a China-centered
perspective does not yield clear, absolute truths about China's
rise, focusing on change in the PRC from pre-modern times to the
present allows us to distinguish between China's own dynamic and
its relative change of position vis-a-vis other actors, including
ourselves. Written in clear and accessible style, this nuanced book
will be essential reading for all readers interested in China past
and present and its growing global role. Contributions by: Lowell
Dittmer, Erica S. Downs, Mark Elvin, Joseph W. Esherick, Joseph
Fewsmith, Barry Naughton, Dwight H. Perkins, Qin Yaqing, Evelyn S.
Rawski, R. Keith Schoppa, Michael D. Swaine, and Brantly Womack.
The Pacific Rim of Asia – Pacific Asia – is now the world's
largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned
to its center. China's global outlook is shaped by its regional
experience, first as a pre-modern Asian center, then displaced by
Western-oriented modernization, and now returning as a central
producer and market in a globalized region. Developments since 2008
have been so rapid that future directions are uncertain, but
China's presence, population, and production guarantee it a key
role. As a global competitor, China has awakened American anxieties
and the US-China rivalry has become a major concern for the rest of
the world. However, rather than facing a power transition between
hegemons, the US and China are primary nodes in a multi-layered,
interconnected global matrix that neither can control. Brantly
Womack argues that Pacific Asia is now the key venue for working
out a new world order.
The Pacific Rim of Asia – Pacific Asia – is now the world's
largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned
to its center. China's global outlook is shaped by its regional
experience, first as a pre-modern Asian center, then displaced by
Western-oriented modernization, and now returning as a central
producer and market in a globalized region. Developments since 2008
have been so rapid that future directions are uncertain, but
China's presence, population, and production guarantee it a key
role. As a global competitor, China has awakened American anxieties
and the US-China rivalry has become a major concern for the rest of
the world. However, rather than facing a power transition between
hegemons, the US and China are primary nodes in a multi-layered,
interconnected global matrix that neither can control. Brantly
Womack argues that Pacific Asia is now the key venue for working
out a new world order.
In their three thousand years of interaction, China and Vietnam
have been through a full range of relationships. Twenty-five years
ago they were one another's worst enemies; fifty years ago they
were the closest of comrades. Five hundred years ago they each saw
themselves as Confucian empires; fifteen hundred years ago Vietnam
was a part of China. Throughout all these fluctuations the one
constant has been that China is always the larger power, and
Vietnam the smaller. China has rarely been able to dominate
Vietnam, and yet the relationship is shaped by its asymmetry. The
Sino-Vietnamese relationship provides the perfect ground for
developing and exploring the effects of asymmetry on international
relations. Womack develops his theory in conjunction with an
original analysis of the interaction between China and Vietnam from
the Bronze Age to the present.
Power is real, but it does not always prevail. This book explores
how disparity structures international relationships. Beginning at
the bilateral level, the relationship between the smaller side and
the larger side can be normal as long as the smaller does not feel
threatened and the larger can assume that its capabilities are
respected. However, the smaller can be tempted to brinksmanship,
while the larger can be tempted to bully. Asymmetric conflicts are
often stalemated because the limited commitment of the larger side
is met by the smaller's mortal resistance. In multilateral
situations, asymmetry shapes patterns of uncertainty and attention.
In global systems, how hegemons treat their subjects is the
unobserved sand shifting beneath their feet as they look toward
their challenger. Since 2008, the US has retained primacy but not
dominance. The management of asymmetric relationships in a
multinodal world will determine how power matters in the current
era.
Power is real, but it does not always prevail. This book explores
how disparity structures international relationships. Beginning at
the bilateral level, the relationship between the smaller side and
the larger side can be normal as long as the smaller does not feel
threatened and the larger can assume that its capabilities are
respected. However, the smaller can be tempted to brinksmanship,
while the larger can be tempted to bully. Asymmetric conflicts are
often stalemated because the limited commitment of the larger side
is met by the smaller's mortal resistance. In multilateral
situations, asymmetry shapes patterns of uncertainty and attention.
In global systems, how hegemons treat their subjects is the
unobserved sand shifting beneath their feet as they look toward
their challenger. Since 2008, the US has retained primacy but not
dominance. The management of asymmetric relationships in a
multinodal world will determine how power matters in the current
era.
China Among Unequals presents asymmetry theory, a new paradigm for
the study of international relations, derived from China's
relationships with its neighbors and the world. The first
collection of its kind, it brings together key writings on the
theory and its applications to China's basic foreign policy,
particularly towards the United States and the rest of
Asia.Starting with an exploration of the general theory of
asymmetry, with particular attention given to such topics as human
rights, soft power, regionalism, and asymmetric wars, the book then
moves on to the fundamentals of China's external relations, looking
at the complexities created by its scale and broad range of
neighbors. Traditional imperial relationships are analyzed, as well
as China's more recent emphasis on multipolarity. The third section
deals with US-China ties -China's most important relationship, and
the only one in which it is in the more vulnerable position. The
final section treats in detail the relationships between China and
its Asian neighbors, including Southeast Asia and the complicated
multilateral situations of Korea and Taiwan.
China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political
distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we
readily paste labels communist, non-Western, developing country but
whose internal logic remains a mystery to us. Arguing that it would
be a major step forward in our genuine knowledge of China if we
understood its internal dynamic, this innovative book considers
China from a historical perspective to chart its current dynamic
and future direction. Renowned historians, economists, and
political scientists explore the internal dynamic of China's rise
since traditional times through the key themes of China's identity,
security, economy, environment, energy, and politics. Each themed
section pairs a historian with a social scientist to give an
overall view of where China is coming from and where it is heading.
One of the PRC's best-known experts on international relations
provides a concluding reflection on the political psychology of
China's view of itself in the world. Although a China-centered
perspective does not yield clear, absolute truths about China's
rise, focusing on change in the PRC from pre-modern times to the
present allows us to distinguish between China's own dynamic and
its relative change of position vis-a-vis other actors, including
ourselves. Written in clear and accessible style, this nuanced book
will be essential reading for all readers interested in China past
and present and its growing global role. Contributions by: Lowell
Dittmer, Erica S. Downs, Mark Elvin, Joseph W. Esherick, Joseph
Fewsmith, Barry Naughton, Dwight H. Perkins, Qin Yaqing, Evelyn S.
Rawski, R. Keith Schoppa, Michael D. Swaine, and Brantly Womack.
In their three thousand years of interaction, China and Vietnam
have been through a full range of relationships. Twenty-five years
ago they were one another's worst enemies; fifty years ago they
were the closest of comrades. Five hundred years ago they each saw
themselves as Confucian empires; fifteen hundred years ago Vietnam
was a part of China. Throughout all these fluctuations the one
constant has been that China is always the larger power, and
Vietnam the smaller. China has rarely been able to dominate
Vietnam, and yet the relationship is shaped by its asymmetry. The
Sino-Vietnamese relationship provides the perfect ground for
developing and exploring the effects of asymmetry on international
relations. Womack develops his theory in conjunction with an
original analysis of the interaction between China and Vietnam from
the Bronze Age to the present.
Few countries have had more turbulent politics in the twentieth century than China. Although China's unprecedented stability and prosperity in the 1980s gave hope that such turbulence was at an end, the crises of Tiananmen, culminating in the massacre of June 4, 1989, proved that the turbulence continues. Here, eight distinguished China specialists provide broad-gauged, original essays that attempt to explain the dynamics of contemporary Chinese politics by analyzing the preceding patterns of development. Some of the essays focus on the most basic issues of the historical development of Chinese politics while other essays focus on developments in important policy areas since 1949. The book concludes with a penetrating analysis of the Tiananmen events by Tang Tsou, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Together, the essays detail the weight of the past on Chinese politics, but also the long-term developments that prevent the simple recurrence of previous patterns.
Few countries have had more turbulent politics in the twentieth century than China. Although China's unprecedented stability and prosperity in the 1980s gave hope that such turbulence was at an end, the crises of Tiananmen, culminating in the massacre of June 4, 1989, proved that the turbulence continues. Here, eight distinguished China specialists provide broad-gauged, original essays that attempt to explain the dynamics of contemporary Chinese politics by analyzing the preceding patterns of development. Some of the essays focus on the most basic issues of the historical development of Chinese politics while other essays focus on developments in important policy areas since 1949. The book concludes with a penetrating analysis of the Tiananmen events by Tang Tsou, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Together, the essays detail the weight of the past on Chinese politics, but also the long-term developments that prevent the simple recurrence of previous patterns.
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