Lai Hongyi - The Domestic Sources of Chinas Foreign Policy: Regimes, Leadership, Priorities and Process

Linkage politics have long been an intricate question in explaining Chinas external behavior. In this book, Lai brings us to a new perspective on connecting Chinese leaders vision, succession politics and domestic political economy with Chinas foreign policy. This is a must-read for all interested in the rise of a new titan in world politics.

Jae Ho Chung, Seoul National University

As Chinas political and economic influence in the world is rapidly increasing, it is essential to understand how Chinas domestic politics affects its foreign political and economic policy. This book offers an accessible, informative and up-to-date systemic analysis of the foreign policy of China. Where mainstream literature in international relations usually suggests that Chinas foreign policy is primarily determined by external factors, such as the international system and external settings, this book demonstrates instead that domestic factors profoundly shape Chinas foreign policy from the late Maos era to the reform era. It demonstrates how Chinas foreign policy is driven by the preservation of political and economic regimes; the political survival of the top leader; the top leaders vision for, and skills in, managing external affairs; the leaders policy priorities; dramatic events and the process of policymaking. It presents its argument in-depth analysis of major cases of Chinese foreign policy for example, Chinasdifficult relations with Southeast Asia; Chinas fifteen-year accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO); Chinas oil diplomacy in the recent decade, and the diversified process of foreign policy making in the twenty-first century.

Hongyi Lai is a lecturer at School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. He is author of Reform and the Non-State Economy in China: The Political Economy of Liberalization Strategies; the editor of Asian Energy Security: The Maritime Dimension; and co-editor of Harmony and Development: ASEANChina Relations and China into the Hu-Wen Era: Policy Initiatives and Challenges.

Series Editor
Zheng Yongnian, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, UK

Regimes, leadership, priorities, and process

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Lai, Hongyi, 1965
The domestic sources of China's foreign policy : regimes, leadership,
priorities and process / Hongyi Lai.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. ChinaForeign relations. 2. ChinaPolitics and government. 3. China Economic conditions. I. Title.
DS779.47.L35 2010
327.51dc22
2009033052

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