China and Multilateralism

<p>This book thoroughly analyzes China’s political ideas regarding the international order and their reflection in China’s engagement in multilateralism. </p><p>It introduces the debates and discussions that take place among Chinese intellectuals in the study of international relations as an important part of non-western international relation theories generating reflections on the convergences and divergences between China’s political ideas and Europe-centric perspectives. With a focus specifically on China’s main bilateral and multilateral relations in its principal regions of interest – East Asia and Central Asia – the book also examines China’s relationship with the United States Russia and the European Union and the One Belt One Road initiative drawing on a mixture of primary and secondary Chinese language sources extensive interviews with Chinese officials academics and think tanks.</p><p>This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Chinese politics/studies foreign policy analysis Asian studies and international relations.</p>