China Steps Out
What are Beijings objectives towards the developing world and how they have evolved and been pursued over time? Featuring contributions by recognized experts, China Steps Out analyzes and explains Chinas strategies in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America, and evaluates their effectiveness. This book explains how other countries perceive and respond to Chinas growing engagement and influence. Each chapter is informed by the functionally organized academic literature and addresses a uniform set of questions about Beijings strategy. Using a regional approach, the authors are able to make comparisons among regions based on their economic, political, military, and social characteristics, and consider the unique features of Chinese engagement in each region and the developing world as a whole. China Steps Out will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese foreign policy, comparative political economy, and international relations.
Joshua Eisenman, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at University of Texas at Austin, and Senior Fellow for China Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council.
Eric Heginbotham, PhD, is Principal Research Scientist at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
China Steps Out is a brilliant guide for both policy-makers and academics alike. The authors masterfully detail Chinas strategic goals and expansive relations with the developing world through comparative regional analyses and unique insights.
Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
China Steps Out is the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of Chinas broad footprint across the developing worldexamining relations with numerous regions of the Global South and the complex toolbox of instruments Beijing uses to advance its interests. This is the best textbook available on the subject, which should be read widely by students, scholars, journalists, the business community, and government officials.
David Shambaugh, Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Chinas economic clout in the developing world is transforming geopolitics as nations from Latin America to Africa bandwagon, balance, and bend under the weight of Beijings newfound influence. Eisenman and Heginbotham have brought together a first-rate team of scholars to assess Chinas strategic intentions and the consequences and contradictions of Xi Jinpings ambitious bid to lead the developing world. This new volume is a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of Chinas sudden and important impact around the globe.
Michael Green, Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and former senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council
China Steps Out captures the most important shift in the Xi Jinping era of Chinese foreign policy: Chinas relations with the developing world. Chinas relations with great powers are discussed in many books; this book, by contrast, is a rare study of the geographic areas where strategic competition between the U.S. and China will most likely play out. Its well designed and executed chapters survey Chinas comprehensive engagement strategies around the world, including Beijings increasingly important military relationships.
Christopher P. Twomey, Associate Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
China Steps Out
Beijings Major Power Engagement with the Developing World
Edited by Joshua Eisenman and Eric Heginbotham
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Contents
Kurt M. Campbell
Part I
Background and History
Joshua Eisenman and Eric Heginbotham
Derek J. Mitchell
Part II
Regional Profiles
Eric Heginbotham
Raffaello Pantucci and Matthew Oresman
Jeff M. Smith
Joshua Eisenman and David H. Shinn
Sarah Kaiser-Cross and Yufeng Mao
R. Evan Ellis
Part III
Conclusion
Joshua Eisenman and Eric Heginbotham
Appendix I
Data
Appendix II
Relevant Official White Papers Issued under the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, November 2012October 2017
Our last book, China and the Developing World: Beijings Strategy for the Twenty-first Century (2007), was published a decade ago. At that time, China had already become a major presence in what Mao Zedong had dubbed the Third World, and was shaping political, economic, and social outcomes in dozens of countries. Beijings presence in the developing world has since grown and evolved, and for many regions China is now a top investor and trading partner. Meanwhile, Beijings influence has expanded apace, and a variety of new, China-initiated international organizations now provide a robust institutional framework for its activities.
For much of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union struggled for dubious advantages in forgotten ramparts in East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Places like the Ogaden in Ethiopia, Jambo in southern Angola, and the mountainous jungles of Nicaragua all saw conflict and competition as part of a seemingly inexorable global game of dominos. China participated in this early era of strategic competitionduring a particularly vigilant period of ideological intensity in the late 1960s and Sino-Soviet rivalry in the 1970sbuilding railroads and providing military support and ideological sustenance to radical regimes across the globe, but withdrew to focus on domestic imperatives after 1978.
