China’s Foreign Policy: Who Makes It, and How Is It Made?

Front Matter....Pages 1-9
Introduction....Pages 10-17
Front Matter....Pages 18-19
More Actors, Less Coordination? New Challenges for the Leaders of a Rising China....Pages 21-37
China’s Foreign Policy and the Leadership Transition: Prospects for Change under the ‘Fifth Generation’....Pages 39-64
Another Take on Prospects for the Foreign Policy of the Chinese Fifth-Generation Leadership....Pages 65-83
Front Matter....Pages 84-85
Chinese Foreign Policy Research Institutes and the Practice of Influence....Pages 87-124
Moving Between the ‘Inner Circle’ and the ‘Outer Circle’: The Limited Impact of Think Tanks on Policy Making in China....Pages 125-149
Front Matter....Pages 150-151
Chinese National Identity and Foreign Policy: Linkages Between the Two....Pages 153-184
Chinese Nationalism and the American Response: Sources of Tension and Prospects for Renewed Cooperation....Pages 185-208
Front Matter....Pages 210-211
China’s Financial and Monetary Policies....Pages 213-228
How do Monetary and Financial Issues Interact with China’s Foreign Policy Making?....Pages 229-246
Front Matter....Pages 248-249
China’s (North) Korea Policy: Misperception and Reality (An Independent Chinese Perspective on Sino-Korean Relations)....Pages 251-274
China’s Korea Policy in the Making....Pages 275-297
Disillusionment and Dismay: How Chinese Netizens Think and Feel about the Two Koreas....Pages 299-327
Back Matter....Pages 328-343