China and coexistence : Beijing's national security strategy for the twenty-first century

Author(s)

• Odgaard, Liselotte

Bibliographic Information

China and coexistence : Beijing's national security strategy for the twenty-first century

Liselotte Odgaard

Woodrow Wilson Center Press , Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"Peaceful coexistence", long a key phrase in China's strategic thinking, is a constructive doctrine that offers China a path for influencing the international system. So argues Liselotte Odgaard in this timely analysis of China's national security strategy in the context of its foreign policy practice. China's program of peaceful coexistence emphasizes absolute sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of other states. Odgaard suggests that China's policy of working within the international community and with non-state actors such as the UN aims to win for China greater power and influence without requiring widespread exercise of military or economic pressure. Odgaard examines the origins of peaceful coexistence in early Soviet doctrine, its midcentury development by China and India, and its ongoing appeal to developing countries. She reveals what this foreign policy offers China through a comparative study of aspiring powers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She explores its role in China's border disputes in the South China Sea and with Russia and India; in diplomacy in the UN Security Council over Iran, Sudan, and Myanmar; and, in China's handling of challenges to the legitimacy of its regime from Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Japan.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Art of Walking on Two Legs: China's National Security Strategy since the Cold War 2. Theoretical, Historical, and Strategic Alternatives toChinese-Style Peaceful Coexistence 3. Coexistence: A Strategy of Influence for Would-Be Great Powers 4. China's Policies on Conflict Resolution: The South China Sea, the Chinese-Russian, and the Chinese-Indian Border Disputes 5. China's Policies on Diplomacy: The Cases of Iran, Sudan, and Myanmar 6. China's Policies on Legitimacy: The Cases of Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Japan 7. Conclusion: Making Sense of China's National Security Strategy Notes Index

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• NCID: BB10993553
• ISBN:
  • 9781421405636
• LCCN: 2011045264
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.,Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 242 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JZ1734
  • DC23 : 355/.033551
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : China -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
  • LCSH : National security -- China -- History -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Strategic culture -- China