china IR rev final sept 2023

Roy Anthony Rogers The Struggles for Human Rights in Xinjiang, 2019.
This book analyses the human rights conditions in Xinjiang and the internal and external factors influencing China’s
policies in this region since the 1970’ies. The reading of this book might be combined with the insights provided by Li
Lin, Li Xiaxia & Lidija Fleiner’s On Minority Rights.
Graham Allison Destined for War. Can America Escape Thucydides’ Trap,
Scribe, 2020.
Why did the competition between Greece’s two great powers ultimately produce a war that destroyed what each
cherished most? The Harvard scholar Graham Allison asks: “According to Thucydides, the fundamental explanation
lies in the depth of the structural stress between a rising and a ruling power. As the rivalry led Athens and Sparta into
successive standoffs, the most passionate voices in each political system grew louder, their sense of pride stronger, their
claims about threats posed by the adversary more pointed, and their challenge to leaders who sought to keep the peace
more severe. Thucydides identifies three primary drivers fueling this dynamic that leads to war: interests, fear, and
honor” (p.39). On this basis, Allison surveys the Chinese-US relationship, warning of the inevitability of conflict if US
and EU leaders do not address historical lessons in managing their mutual relationship, a power transition.
Kenneth Pomeranz’s The Great Divergence. China, Europe, and the
Making of the Modern World Economy, Princeton UP, 2020.
The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained growth begin in
Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and
product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia. Moreover, key regions in China and Japan were
better off ecologically than those in Western Europe, with each part facing corresponding shortages of land-intensive
products. Pomeranz’s comparative lens reveals the two critical factors of coal and access to trade with the New World.
As East Asia’s economy stagnated, Europe narrowly escaped the same fate primarily due to favorable resource stocks
from underground and overseas.
David Shambaugh China and the World, OUP,2020.
This volume gathers experts on China’s foreign policy to examine its foreign relations, edited by a seasoned expert on
China affairs. As the world evolves in increasingly unpredictable directions, one of the keys will surely be the impact of
China. The book's authors argue that China brings its benefits but is also a problematic interlocutor for others. It touches
upon continuity in transformation in the long-term by Chinese ideas for a new type of great power politics presented in
2013 by the peeps of Xi Jinping, which had a defensive purpose of preventing an Asian system organized against China,
but which was perceived as a bit for Asian dominance by the US, at which point the bilateral relationship derailed. The
US became bent on grappling with China flying. This has to be compared to the historical legacy of China’s tributary
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Ananth Krishnan India’s China Challenge. A Journey Through China’s and
What it Means for India, Harper Collins, 2020.
In this book, long-rime Beijing-resident journalist Ananth Krishnan unpacks the India-China relationship, which is
fourfold: The political challenge of dealing with a one-party state that is looking to shape global institutions
increasingly; the military challenge of managing an unresolved border; the economic challenge of both learning from
China’s remarkable and unique growth story and building a closer relationship; and the conceptual challenge of
changing how we think about and engage with our most important neighbor. This book provides a good introduction.
For scholarly studies, consult Aravind Yelery’s Tailspin: The Politics of India-China Economic Relations and Kanti
Bajpai’s Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations provide a thorough examination of this critical bilateral
relationship in Asia.
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Michael Tai China and her neighbors—Asian Diplomacy from Ancient History to the Present.
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