China's Strategy & International Security

Avery Goldstein's 2005 book Rising to the Challenge: China's Grand Strategy and International Security provides an in-depth look at the many issues and complex relationships surrounding the grand strategy governing China's international presence as it enters the twenty-first century. A grand strategy is distinguished by its scope, being the way a state "coordinates its policies in various domains to reduce the likelihood that they will work at cross-purposes" (Goldstein 19). It is termed "grand" because:

It refers to the guiding logic or overarching vision about how a country's leaders combine a broad range of capabilities linked with military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to pursue international goals (Goldstein 19).

China's grand strategy "aims to engineer China's rise to great power status within the constraints of a unipolar international system that the United States dominates" (Goldstein 12). This strategy supports China's continuing program of "economic and military modernization" and mitigates the concern that the United States and other nations will view its increasing capabilities as an unacceptable threat (Goldstein 12).

At the heart of this carefully devised grand strategy are two crucial components: the efforts of diplomacy to establish partnerships with other major powers and "an activist international agenda" intended to portray China as "a responsible member of the international community" and dampen concerns about its projected use of its grow

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out in terms of several power perspectives, such as the power preponderance theory and the power transition theory (Goldstein, 82). The balance-of-power theory suggested that China's rising power might give way to war at some point (Goldstein, 87). Furthermore, many countries hoped that "a new multipolar world would emerge," overtaking America's unipolarity, even though that unipolarity seemed firmly established (Goldstein, 88). Theories of democracy came into play the democratic peace theory and the democratic transition theory, as well as new perspectives such as the institutional, interdependence, and nuclear peace perspectives. All of these views converged on one issue: What did China's emerging power mean for the rest of the world? Chapter 5 is entitled "Stimuli for a New Strategy," and it deals primarily with the rationale for China's responses to growing concerns over its growing power. In fact, however, China itself was also concerned about the fact that the Soviet Union had gone down and left United States power unchecked (Goldstein, 102). The chapter discusses the individual alliances between the U.S. and Australia and Japan, as well as China's relationship to the ASEAN nations. Its strategic alternatives included "

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