Assessing Treaty Performance in China: Trade and Human Rights By Pitman B. Potter
2014 | 309 Pages | ISBN: 0774825596 | PDF | 3 MB
Closer and more frequent contact among states and societies brought about by globalization has led to an increase in trade and human rights disputes that can challenge economic relations and cloud constructive relationships. Preventing these kinds of disputes where possible and managing them when necessary requires a better understanding of the cross-cultural dimensions of treaty performance on trade and human rights.Assessing Treaty Performance in China examines the dynamics of Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity as foundations for China's legal performance around international standards on trade and human rights. The paradigm of Selective Adaptation reveals how local interpretation and implementation of international treaty standards are affected by normative perspectives derived from perception, complementarity, and legitimacy. The paradigm of Institute Capacity helps explain how operational dimensions of legal performance are affected by structural and relational dynamics of institutional purpose, location, orientation, and cohesion. These normative and operational perspectives are applied to China's legal performance on trade and human rights issues. For example, China's accession to the WTO is discussed as context for China's emerging legal regimes for contracts and property.This volume outlines a new approach for understanding the treaty performance of an increasingly important actor in the international system. It also offers policy suggestions for more effective engagement with China on trade and human rights issues.
No Limits: The Inside Story of China's War with the West by Andrew Small
English | November 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1685890199 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 1.40 MB
The riveting and mostly untold story about the battle for financial and technological power and mastery between the West and China over the last decade.
Yue Zhuang, Andrea M. Riemenschnitter, "Entangled Landscapes: Early Modern China and Europe"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9814722588 | PDF | pages: 340 | 21.9 mb
China and Europe have had a storied, and at times stormy, relationship. Yet their relationship is hardly one of a simple, binary exchange. Instead, their roles are best described as entangled. This exchange has a physical manifestation in the world of garden design, as artists on both continents engaged in complex processes of appropriation, crossover, and transformation.
Vaclav Smil, "China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1563240416, 0873328191 | PDF | pages: 280 | 21.0 mb
In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth", a disturbing book. This new volume, drawn on a much broader canvas, updates and expands on the basic arguments and perceptions of "The Bad Earth". This book is not a systematic litany of what went wrong and how much - but rather an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society, all seen through the critical environmental constraints and impacts.
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1440847363 | 281 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.55 MB
Most experts argue that economic interdependence, nuclear weapons, and the U.S. contribution to maintaining the global commons mean that China and Russia will generally accept U.S. military superiority and U.S. political supremacy in managing global affairs. An agreement between these two powerful countries to work against the United States, however, would greatly increase its vulnerabilities. Relations between the governments of China and Russia with the U.S. have worsened in past years. Identifying the various pathways, events, and political, economic, and military drivers that could shape the dynamics of the China-Russia relationship is of critical importance to U.S. security.
This book examines the sources, nuances, and manifestations of the ongoing Sino-Russian relationship in order to recommend strategy and policy that could work to U.S. advantage. Written by an author who traveled extensively in both countries in order to conduct research and expert interviews for the work, the book covers the latest developments to include the major changes in Chinese foreign policy under President Xi Jinping and ongoing relations with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0674270339 | 465 pages | True PDF | 23.32 MB
Following the success of The China Questions, a new volume of insights from top China specialists explains key issues shaping today's US-China relationship.
For decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does this mean for the US-China relationship? For the global economy and international security? Seeking to clarify central issues, provide historical perspective, and demystify stereotypes, Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi and an exceptional group of China experts offer essential insights into the many dimensions of the world's most important bilateral relationship.
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0198857969 | 326 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.64 MB
Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland.
China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's geo-economic vision is playing out in the global economy, or how its technology is reshaping the planet, yet it is over its western borders, in Central Asia, that China's influence has been quietly expanding in a more pervasive way. It is here that you can find the first strand of Xi Jinping's grand Belt and Road Initiative, China's new Silk Road to the West. It is to the Eurasian heartland that we can look for an
English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-1032293264 | 648 pages | True PDF | 29.02 MB
This book is one of the first wide-ranging surveys of China's foreign policy and practice from the 16th century to the present day from a Chinese perspective. A modern history of China's interaction with major powers, it throws new light on the events and issues of major interest, clarifies possible points of ambiguity and misunderstanding, and brings the reader up to date about some of the current issues of contention in China's international relations.
China' Foreign Policy and Practice:
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1529226325 | 158 pages | True PDF | 8.87 MB
This book unpacks the political economy of China's COVID-19 vaccine supplies to the Global South. Examining the political and economic forces at play, the book demonstrates how China's vaccine provisions have been determined by a complex set of commercial interests, domestic politics and geopolitical relationships. The book sheds light on how domestic interests shape China's role in global governance and its international economic engagement. Its analysis contributes to broader academic debates on the politics and economics of crises, as well as offering new insights on how pre-existing political and market forces shape aid and trade in the context of crisis.
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David Sheff, "China Dawn: The Story of a Technology and Business Revolution"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0060084782, 0060005998 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.7 mb