Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior

This volume explores how China is adapting to international norms and practices while still giving primacy to its national interests. It examines China''s strategic behaviour on the world stage, particularly in its relationships with major powers and Asian neighbours.

Suisheng Zhao is an associate professor and Executive Director of the Center for China[1]U.S. Cooperation at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He was the recipient of the 1999-2000 Campbell National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, and a member of the Board of Directors at the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (USCSCAP). An author and editor of four books, his most recent are Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan, and the Crisis of 1995-96 and China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China.