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China Goes Global
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China Goes Global

The Partial Power

Oxford UP, 2013 más...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

David Shambaugh’s marvelous exploration – one of The Economist best books of 2013 – sets the context for China’s foreign and domestic policies and provides an informed perspective on China’s tortured history. With China’s increasing prominence, policy makers and scholars need this kind of deeper understanding. Shambaugh, who is the director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, believes that conventional wisdom about China’s emergence as a global power may exaggerate its standing. China could be doomed to be a “partial power” because it focuses so narrowly on its own interests. China’s global impact militarily, commercially and culturally has been quite limited. For more surprises, getAbstract recommends this book to anyone seeking insight into China’s policies, including decision makers, executives, investors, diplomats and students.

Take-Aways

  • Popular perception may greatly exaggerate China’s global importance.
  • China has created a public image that prevents observers from seeing the economic and social realities that could hinder its development into a superpower.
  • China remains ambivalent about the international order, which it regards as heavily influenced by Western liberal principles that it distrusts.

About the Author

Political science and international affairs professor David Shambaugh directs the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.


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