Table Of ContentThe Political Economy of the Asia Pacific
Vinod K. Aggarwal
Sara A. Newland Editors
Responding
to China’s Rise
US and EU Strategies
The Political Economy of the Asia Pacifi c
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Vinod K. Aggarwal
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Vinod K. A ggarwal • Sara A. Newland
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Responding to China’s Rise
US and EU Strategies
Editors
Vinod K. Aggarwal Sara A. Newland
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Pref ace
China has coupled its meteoric economic rise with increasingly active involvement
in international organizations, and a more muscular presence in international affairs
more broadly. To some, these developments seem threatening. As China becomes an
increasingly important player on the global stage, it may begin to challenge the
liberal values that have long undergirded the international order. To others, China’s
rise presents more of an opportunity than a threat: Chinese scholars and policymak-
ers, and some Western scholars as well, often point to Chinese history for evidence
that China’s resurgence need not pose a threat to the West. Instead, they argue,
China offers a new model of a rising power and challenges the notion that rising
powers will inevitably come into confl ict with established great powers. These
debates thus hold signifi cance not only for China’s future as a global power but also
for theoretical questions about the nature of power in the international system.
Bringing together new contributions by Chinese, European, and American schol-
ars, this volume seeks to contribute to these debates. Although many of the chapters
in this collection are rooted in the dominant Western theories of international rela-
tions, we move beyond the usual debates over realism, liberalism, and constructiv-
ism by bringing these approaches into conversation with historically informed work
on China’s international behavior and with analyses of Chinese scholar Zheng
Bijian’s notion of China’s “peaceful rise.” If China can indeed rise peacefully, then
we are not doomed to repeat the power transition problems that led to world wars in
the twentieth century with Germany’s rise as a challenger to the UK.
This project relied on generous support from UC-Berkeley’s, Institute for East
Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, and the European Union Center of
Excellence, as well as the Clausen Center for International Business & Policy, the
California Management Review, and the Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC).
These sources of funding enabled us to bring together a diverse group of scholars
from three continents for two days of presentations and discussions. Our conversa-
tions were greatly enriched by the contributions of our discussants: Leif-Eric Easley,
Michael Glosny, Seung-Youn Oh, Jihong Sanderson, Victor Shih, Christopher
Twomey, and Liu Xin.
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B ASC staff provided invaluable support, ranging from logistical help before and
during the conference to research and editorial assistance as we prepared the book
manuscript for publication. We are especially grateful to the BASC Project Directors,
Alexsia Chan and Bora Park, who ably oversaw this long process. We also thank the
numerous undergraduate research assistants who provided practical support and
research at each stage of the process, among them Daniel Chen, Mika Ciotola,
Victoria Gu, Yosha Huang, Christopher Hussey, Do-Hee Jeong, Katheryn Lee, Jake
Lerner, Elizabeth Vissers, and Eric Wong. Finally, we are grateful to Lorraine
Klimowich at Springer for his assistance throughout the editing process. All errors
remain our own.
Berkeley, CA, USA Vinod K. Aggarwal
Cambridge, MA, USA Sara A. Newland
Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Introduction ............................................................................................... 3
Vinod K. Aggarwal and Sara A. Newland
Part II China’s Rise in Historical Perspective
2 China, Hegemony, and Leadership in East Asia .................................... 27
David C. Kang
3 The Myth of Chinese Exceptionalism: A Historical Perspective
on China’s Rise .......................................................................................... 51
Yuan-kang Wang
Part III China’s Current Rise: A Chinese Perspective
4 The Construction of Uncertainty and Threat:
Theoretical Debates on China’s Rise ....................................................... 77
Jisheng Sun
5 Rising China: Political Leadership, Foreign Policy,
and “Chineseness” .................................................................................... 99
Yinhong Shi
Part IV European and American Responses to China’s Emergence
6 US–China Economic Integration and its Implications
for US Policy in the Taiwan Strait ........................................................... 113
Scott L. Kastner
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7 Explaining Economic Frictions Between China
and the European Union .......................................................................... 131
Jonathan Holslag
8 China’s Rise: Towards a Division of Labor
in Transatlantic Relations ........................................................................ 151
Øystein Tunsjø
Index ................................................................................................................. 175
Contributors
Vinod K. Aggarwal i s a Professor of Political Science, Affi liated Professor at the
Haas School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley APEC Study Center at the
University of California at Berkeley.
Jonathan Holslag i s a Research Fellow at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary
China Studies (BICCS).
Jisheng Sun i s the Dean of the Department of English and Professor of International
Studies at China Foreign Affairs University.
David C. Kang is a Professor of International Relations and Business at the
University of Southern California, in the School of International Relations and
the Marshall School of Business. He is also director of the Korean Studies Institute
at USC.
Scott L. Kastner is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park.
Sara A. Newland is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California at Berkeley
and a Preceptor of Expository Writing at Harvard University.
Øystein Tunsjø is an Associate Professor at the Center for Asian Security Studies
at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies.
Yuan-kang Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at
Western Michigan University.
Yinhong Shi i s a Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center
for American Studies at Renmin University.
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