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This comprehensive and user-friendly textbook provides a single volume resource for all those studying China's international relations. It incorporates traditional security concerns, as well as the new 'human' security issues and international economic relations, focusing on relations with the US and/or East Asia, along with relations with the rest of the world.

Written by expert China scholars, this book:

• looks at China's international relations in terms of the core issues of politics, economics and security
• explains the dominant approaches to studying China's international relations and how these lead to different understandings
• places the study of contemporary international relations in a historical context with an emphasis on how the past influences the present, and the future
• examines the structures of international relations policy-making in China and the main objectives of Chinese policy
• provides detailed accounts of China's key relations with the US, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas
• considers China's relations with major global institutions such as the UN, the World Bank and the WTO.

Including helpful summaries, sample questions, suggestions for further reading and identifying key leading points, this is an invaluable resource for those studying Chinese politics and the international relations of the Asia Pacific.