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Through the outline of a coherent theoretical foundation for understanding East Asian international relations, this textbook offers a fresh, analytical approach, including applications of evolutionary theory that differ from and contextualize the prevailing theories currently offered for studies of East Asia. It provides an extensive coverage of ancient world order and European imperialism preceding contemporary themes of security, economic development, money and finance, regionalism, the US-China rivalry, and democracy versus autocracy. Demonstrating systemically how facts and theories are constructed, and how these are bound by evolutionary constraints, students gain a realistic view of knowledge production and the mindset and tools to participate actively in determining which facts and theories are more acceptable than alternatives. Feature boxes, discussion questions, exercises, and recommended readings are incorporated into each chapter to encourage active learning. A vital new resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in political science, international relations, and Asian studies.

"With China's global ascendancy, Chinese foreign policy has become a popular area of studies for scholars around the world. Rather than simply contributing to this subject, this book sets out to reflect on the field itself, using as samples some of the author's previous work, both published and unpublished, covering different areas of Chinese foreign policy and adopting different approaches. In doing so, it examines how knowledge about Chinese foreign policy has evolved, focusing on areas such as traditions, values, perspectives and regionalism. The field of Chinese foreign policy has evolved along with international relations and foreign policy analysis. The quality of the studies of specific topics has generally been high thanks to the competitive and extensive nature of academic research and exchange, despite a perceived failure to predict Beijing's current assertive foreign policy orientation. Looking forward, this book reflects on how changing trends in a number of key areas - a shift in thinking about opposition research, an excessive focus on national security, narrowing of academic exchange, and increasingly limited access between China and the West - threaten to lower the quality in future Chinese foreign policy studies in Western countries"--

Structure or management? -- Japan's party politics and China policy -- National identities in Sino-Japanese relations -- Japan views the Sino-US national identity gap -- Sino-Japanese coevolution -- The forced labor redress movement -- Japanese strategic thinking toward Taiwan -- Rare earth: vulnerability interdependence? -- China and Japan's ODA Program -- The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Competitor and Supporter for the United States -- 3. Unique Leader in East Asia -- 4. Financier of International Institutions -- 5. Japan Between the United States and East Asia -- Bibliography -- Index

1. China's rise, the China model, and global governance -- 2. The China model -- 3. The Washington Consensus -- 4. The Japan model -- 5. Beyond America and Japan -- 6. Global impact of China's rise -- 7. The China model from a global perspective -- 8. The China model, the Great Recession, and the rise and fall of the great powers -- 9. Conclusion.

Recent Canadian allegations of a link between Indian agents and the murder of a Sikh Canadian leader have sunk the Canada-India relationship. Diplomatically speaking, the US is balancing between supporting its traditional ally Canada and its newfound strategic partner India in its struggle against Chinese hegemony. India's seemingly exceptional treatment at present reminds us of the "China human rights exception" in the 1970s and early 1980s, when the US government chose not to call out China's problems with human rights, even as America was itself adopting a foreign policy centring on human rights. Despite the many differences between China and India, the China exception and its related historical process helps us understand the evolving "India exception," which indeed exists and likely represents the beginning of the end of the honeymoon period between India and the West, although it may take at least two decades for that process to culminate.