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Literature of small state's foreign policy-making has mostly focused on the structural factors and less on the perceptions of the weak state. This article adopts a cross-level analysis framed by role theory to investigate Vietnam's China policy. Two role conceptions are provided to illustrate Vietnam's management of bilateral relations with China. The main demarcation of these two roles lies in their perceptions of hierarchy embedded in the asymmetric relations. The independent role is ego-driven and identity based that it views hierarchy as mainly the discrepancy of material power. By contrast, the interactive role is relational oriented and interprets hierarchy from the angle of distribution of responsibilities; the higher role expectation of the other actor and the pursuit of relational security are especially emphasized by this interactive role. Finally, this article utilizes the case of South China Sea dispute to explain how and why inter-role conflict and domestic role contestation occurred.

Although many observers in the field of Southeast Asian international relations (IRs) predict that Myanmar's relations with China have faced a grand challenge since the 2010 presidential election, this article provides a different perspective and proposes that Myanmar's China policy remain consistent. In addition, theorists in IRs tend to apply the concepts of balance of power (BoP) and bandwagoning as the analytical base and fail to explain the Southeast Asian states' responses to the rising China. This article argues that Myanmar's China policy is better understood and depicted by the theory of balance of relationship (BoR). This article further provides an analysis from the angles of historical factor, domestic political tradition, and external environment to investigate Myanmar's manipulation of BoR. The conclusion of this article aims at predicting the future development of the Sino-Burmese relations. (Pac Rev/GIGA)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Approach of Balance of Relationship -- 2 Why Does a Rising China Not Turn Interventionist? -- 3 The Chinese Nonintervention Policy toward North Korea -- 4 The Chinese Nonintervention Policy toward Myanmar -- 5 Constructing the Chinese Pattern of Intervention -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography

The present study traces the cultural and political contexts within which Beijing considers global governance. They include: (1) Confucian dispositions toward non-interventionism and self-governance; (2) the socialist collectivist ethics that stress persuasion instead of unilateralism; (3) a lingering sense of inferiority arising from underdevelopment that harms self-confidence; and (4) the repugnant experiences with the United Nations (UN) and the United States that have dominated most international organizations since World War II. The consequential Chinese style of global governance is reactive rather than proactive, problem-solving rather than goal-driven, and attentive to obligation and reform more in other major countries than in failing states. That said, China could still assert global leadership by acting as a model of self-governance for other major countries and by intervening in failing states only through closed-door persuasion and exemplification as opposed to open sanctioning. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

"This book analyses the responses of middle powers in the Asia-Pacific toward the contemporary great powers' rivalry of the United States and China, through specific cases studies of South Korea, Australia, Japan, India, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Presenting local perspectives from multiple middle powers as they face the task of maintaining the international order in light of the recent competition between China and the United States, it further develops theories of foreign policy analyses, forming a systematic framework through initiating crucial concepts, including reluctant hedging, economic statecraft, and strategic position-taking. The contributions also provide an in-depth examination of the contemporary geo-politics of the region, including the impact of both the Trump and Biden administrations, Beijing's 'Wolf Warrior' diplomacy, cross-strait relations with Taiwan, and the influences of Japan, Vietnam, Australia and South Korea, revealing that regional middle powers do indeed exert influence on the direction of regional cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. Providing comprehensive studies of many regional powers in the Asia-Pacific, this will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of International Politics, Asian Politics, Asian Studies as well as policy makers on Asia-Pacific relations"--

List of contributors --Acknowledgments --Introduction.The making of Chiense international theory? /Yongjin Zhang and Teng-chi Chang --Part I.Ongoing debates --1.What's in a name? : a critical interrogation of the "Chinese school of IR" /L.H.M. Ling --2.The 'Chinese school' debate : personal reflections /Ren Xiao --3.Why is there no Chinese IR theory? : a cultural perspective /Wang Yiwei and Han Xueqing --4.The rise of China and Chinese IR theories : practice and theory-building /Weixing Hu --5.Debating the Chinese school of IR : a reflective review from Taiwan /Teng-Chi Chang --6.Mapping the world from a chinese perspective? : the debate on constructing an IR theory with Chinese characteristics /Nele Noesselt --Part II.Towards sociological realities --7.The English and Chinese schools of international relations : comparison and lessons /Wang Jiangli and Barry Buzan --8.Navigating the core-periphery structures of 'global' IR : dialogues and audiences for the Chinese school as travelling theory /Peter Marcus Kristensen --9.The Tsinghua approach and the future direction of Chinese international relations research /Xu Jin and Sun Xuefeng --10.Balance of relationship and the Chinese school of IR : being simultaneously Confucian, post-Western, and post-hegemonic /Chih-yu Shih and Chiung-Chiu Huang --11.Constructing a Chinese school of IR as sociological reality : intellectual engagement and knowledge production /Yongjin Zhang --Conclusion.Constructing the Chinese school of IR as an intellectual project : a critical assessment /Hun Joon Kim and Yongjin Zhang --Bibliography --Index.