This book provides scholars in the English-speaking world with a window to understand China’s perspectives on diplomatic theories and policies. This book is a

Despite Beijing’s repeated assurance that China’s rise will be "peaceful", the United States, Japan and the European Union as well as many of China's Asian

This book intends to make sense of how Chinese leaders perceive China’s rise in the world through the eyes of China’s international relations (IR) scholars.

As scholars and publics look for alternatives to what is understood as a violent Western world order, many claim that China can provide such an alternative thro

Major IR theories, which stress that actors will inevitably only seek to enhance their own interests, tend to contrive binaries of self and other and ‘inside�