Fractured China: How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise
Oct 2021 · Cambridge University Press
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Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese behaviour abroad is often not the product of a coherent grand strategy, but results from a sometimes-chaotic struggle for power and resources among contending politico-business interests, within a surprisingly permissive Chinese-style regulatory state. Presenting a path-breaking new analytical framework, Fractured China transforms the central debate in International Relations and provides new tools for scholars and policymakers seeking to understand and respond to twenty-first century rising powers. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in China and Southeast Asia, it includes three major case studies – the South China Sea, non-traditional security cooperation, and development financing–to demonstrate the framework's explanatory power.
About the author
Lee Jones is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. His other books include ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (2012), Societies Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) Work (2015), and The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Markets under Hyperglobalisation (2020).
Shahar Hameiri is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor of International Politics in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. Among his recent books are Governing Borderless Threats (2015), International Intervention and Local Politics (2017), and The Political Economy of Southeast Asia (2020).
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