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Explains how state transformation processes-the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of China's party-state-shape China's external relations.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. State transformation and Chinese foreign policy; 2. State transformation and the South China Sea; 3. Chinese non-traditional security governance in the greater Mekong subregion; 4. China's International development financing; Conclusion.
About the author
Lee Jones is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. His other books include ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (2012), Societies Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) Work (2015), and The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Markets under Hyperglobalisation (2020).Shahar Hameiri is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor of International Politics in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland. Among his recent books are Governing Borderless Threats (2015), International Intervention and Local Politics (2017), and The Political Economy of Southeast Asia (2020).
Summary
Fractured China reshapes the central debate in contemporary International Relations. Rejecting the flawed notion that everything Chinese actors do reflects a topdown strategy, this book highlights the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of the party-state, resulting in complex and even contradictory foreign policy behaviours.
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'In this provocative new book, Jones and Hameiri break open the black box of the state to understand China's foreign policy in both traditional and nontraditional spheres. Building on the idea of China as a regulatory state – which highlights the fragmentation and decentralization of relevant actors – they show that the policymaking process is much more complex than commonly believed.' M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
