America, China, and the struggle for world order
Subtitle: ideas, traditions, historical legacies, and global visions
By: edited by G. John Ikenberry, Wang Jisi, and Zhu Feng
Series: Asia today
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137532183
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General; Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy; Foreign relations
Description: "This book brings together twelve scholars - six Americans and six Chinese - to explore the ways America and China think about international order.  What are the traditions, historical experiences, and ideologies that each country brings to debates about how the rules and institutions of the global system should be organized? The book addresses this question by pairing American and Chinese scholars in each chapter on specific topics related to global order: sovereignty, collective security, resources and the environment, trade, alliances, and monetary and financial relations.  The book offers a vivid portrait of how the two countries come to global affairs from richly diverse and divergent starting points, and, in turn, how these factors affect current global dialogues"--

"This book brings together twelve scholars - six Americans and six Chinese - to explore the ways America and China think about international order. What are the traditions, historical experiences, and ideologies that each country brings to debates about how the rules and institutions of the global system should be organized? The book addresses this question by pairing American and Chinese scholars in each chapter on specific topics related to global order. These topics include: sovereignty, collective security, resources and the environment, trade, alliances, and monetary and financial relations. The book offers a vivid portrait of how the two countries come to global affairs from richly diverse and divergent starting points, and, in turn, shows how the influence of these views on current global dialogues"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Table of Contents; title: List of illustrations; title: Introduction: The United States, China, and Global Order; G. John Ikenberry; title: PART I: SOVEREIGNTY AND THE STATE SYSTEM; title: 1. Sovereignty American Style: Protecting Apple Pie, Fixing Foreign Recipes; Jeffrey W. Legro; title: 2. From Tianxia to Westphalia: The Evolving Chinese Conception of Sovereignty and World Order; Fei-Ling Wang; title: PART II: COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND THE UNITED NATIONS; title: 3. The United States, the United Nations, and Collective Security: Exploring the Deep Sources of American Conduct; Stewart Patrick; title: 4. China's Evolving Attitudes and Approaches Towards UN Collective Security; Jianwei Wang; title: PART III: GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE; title: 5. Is There an Exceptional American Approach to Global Economic Governance?; Daniel W. Drezner; title: 6. China's Approach to Economic Diplomacy; Yang YAO; title: PART IV: TRADE AND RESOURCES; title: 7. Still the Liberal Leader? Domestic Legacies, International Realities, and the Role of the United States in the World Economy; Michael Mastanduno; title: 8. China as a Listian Trading State: Interest, Power, and Economic Ideology; Weixing Hu; title: PART V: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; title: 9. A Green Giant? Inconsistency and American Environmental Diplomacy; Joshua Busby; title: 10. China and International Cooperation on the Environment: Historical and Intellectual Roots of Chinese Thinking about the Environment; Ming WAN; title: PART VI: ALLIANCES AND ARMS CONTROL; title: 11. The American Way of Seeking Security Ideology and Pargmatism; John Owen; title: 12. In Search of Security and Self-identity: Promise and Paradox of China's Nuclear Weapons; Yu Bin; title: Conclusion; Wang Jisi and Zhu Feng.