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Series Editor: Timothy M. Shaw, Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA …

The literature on China's regional rise reveals divergent understandings of why China
changed its regional strategy and when such a transformation occurred. There are also …

The emergence of a new urban underclass in China is a major challenge confronting the
Communist Party, and its potential for fomenting instability has unnerved the Party. A strong …

Since China launched the 16+ 1 forum for meetings with Central and Eastern European
(CEE) countries in 2012, European observers have struggled to understand the Chinese …

A discussion of elite politics in contemporary China. While a great deal of the text is
descriptive, much of the emphasis is on drawing out and abstracting the political dynamic at …

Southeast Asia contains some of the world's busiest shipping waters, particularly the
Indonesian archipelago, the Straits of Malacca and South China Sea. The natural …

Despite the development of an increasingly sophisticated literature on comparative regional
integration drawing from a variety of cases, the European experience remains the most often …

Our primary focus in this article is to compare the impact that the Asian and global
financialcrises had on regional cooperation in East Asia. We seek to explain how and why …

Chinese foreign policy has long focused on Asia, and the Chinese leadership has been
developing a relatively pragmatic approach to China's Asian neighbors for more than twenty …

This paper is a preliminary study of Chinese considerations of China's “economic security”, a
notion that gained currency in China-based Chinese scholars' research on China's …