The rise of China
Subtitle: the impact on semi-periphery and periphery countries
By: edited by Li Xing, Steen Fryba Christensen
Publisher: Aalborg University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Aalborg, Denmark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9788771120172
Subjects: Foreign relations
Description: "The rise of China has had a transformative impact on almost all areas of global political, economic and social life, and raises some very important questions: Will the rise of China lead to the sinicization of the international regime and the liberal order through the process of its historical transformation from being in a semi-periphery position to becoming part of the core of the capitalist world system? Will China be a cooperative actor or a disruptive one? A force for continuity or a force for change? Is China displaying an alternative development model to all other developing countries?  Does China's ascent represent a new 'beginning of history' rather than Fukuyama's 'end of history?' Will the rise of China lead to the peripherization of existing semi-periphery countries, and to the altering of the traditional pattern of relationships between the exiting West-based world order and the developing world? This book provides a framework to understand China's re-emergence in the nexus of historical, economic, political and world-systems perspectives. It explores the triple impact of China's rise to core, semi-periphery and periphery countries, with a focus on developing nations.  China's rise has brought developing countries opportunities and challenges, as well as constraints. If developing countries can respond adequately, China's ascent represents new promises and new prospects."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliograpical references.
Table of contents: title: The unanticipated fall and rise of China and the capitalist world system / Li Xing; title: The rise of China and the myth of a China-led semi-periphery destablization : the case of Brazil / Li Xing and Steen Fryba Christensen; title: China : MERCOSUR and Chile relations / Raúl Bernal-Meza; title: The struggle for modernization and Sino-Latin American economic relations / Eduardo Daniel Oviedo; title: The return of the dragon : China's transformation and its new international role and expansion in Latin America / J. Ignacio Frechero; title: China rising : India responding / Jørgen Dige Pedersen; title: Views from the periphery : the manifold reflections of China's rise in the DR Congo / Johanna Jansson; title: Embracing the dragon : African policy responses for tying down China and enhancing regional integration / Elijah Nyaga Munyi.