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The Partial Power [
Oxford University Press
February 2013
On Sale: February 18, 2013
409 pages
ISBN: 0199860149
EAN: 9780199860142
Kindle: B00B32XDEY
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Non-Fiction
Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth
of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become
the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have
shed much light on the country's internal dynamics--China's
politics, its vast social changes, and its economic
development--few have focused on how this increasingly
powerful nation has become more active and assertive
throughout the world. In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh
delivers the book many have been waiting for--a sweeping
account of China's growing prominence on the international
stage. Thirty years ago, China's role in global affairs
beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly
minor and it had little geostrategic power. As Shambaugh
charts, though, China's expanding economic power has allowed
it to extend its reach virtually everywhere--from mineral
mines in Africa, to currency markets in the West, to
oilfields in the Middle East, to agribusiness in Latin
America, to the factories of East Asia. Shambaugh offers an
enlightening look into the manifestations of China's global
presence: its extensive commercial footprint, its growing
military power, its increasing cultural influence or "soft
power," its diplomatic activity, and its new prominence in
global governance institutions. But Shambaugh is no alarmist. In this balanced and
well-researched volume, he argues that China's global
presence is more broad than deep and that China still lacks
the influence befitting a major world power--what he terms a
"partial power." He draws on his decades of China-watching
and his deep knowledge of the subject, and exploits a wide
variety of previously untapped sources, to shed valuable
light on China's current and future roles in world affairs.
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