China As a Polar Great Power

Informationen zum Autor Anne-Marie Brady is Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and Global Fellow at the Wilson Centre, Washington DC. In 2014 she was appointed to a two-year term on the World Economic Forum's Global Action Council on the Arctic. She is editor-in-chief of The Polar Journal, and has published ten books and more than forty scholarly papers on a range of issues including China's modernised propaganda system, China's activities in the South Pacific, and competing foreign policy interests in Antarctica. Klappentext This book explores China's growing strength at the poles and how it could shift the global balance of power. Zusammenfassung This book explores China's growing strength at the poles and how it could shift the global balance of power. The strategic plans of China are of interest to a broad audience of scholars! policymakers! and international entities! and this well-researched work will be an important resource. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Polar governance; 2. The Polar regions in China's national narrative; 3. China's geostrategic interests in the Polar regions; 4. The party-state-military-market nexus in China's Polar policymaking; 5. Evaluating China as a Polar power; 6. Cooperation or conflict? China's position on points of contention in the Polar regions; 7. From Polar great power to global power? Global governance implications of China's Polar interests; 8. The rise of a new great power.

Product details

• Authors: Anne-Marie Brady, Anne-Marie (University of Canterbury Brady
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107179271
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17927-1
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state