China: The Fragile Superpower (Hardback)
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Short Description for China What kind of superpower will China become, cooperative or aggressive? This work argues that the West's greatest danger is not China's economic or military strength but its internal fragility, and unless Western states understand the fears that motivate Chinese leaders, they are likely to misread and mishandle China.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 16 April 2007
- Format: Hardback 334 pages
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- Categories: Nationalism | Political Structure & Processes | International Relations | General & World History | Asian History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9780195306095 ISBN 10: 0195306090
- Sales rank: 517,852
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What kind of superpower will China become, cooperative or aggressive? Susan Shirk, a former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for China, has spent years thinking about this critical question. In China: The Fragile Superpower, she opens up the black box of Chinese domestic politics and reveals a fragile communist regime struggling to survive in a society turned upside down by economic growth and open markets. Shirk argues that the West's greatest danger is not China's economic or military strength but its internal fragility. She makes the case that it is usually rising powers that provoke wars, and unless Western states understand the fears that motivate Chinese leaders, they are likely to misread and mishandle China - and find themselves in an avoidable international conflict.
