China's vision of global governance: a resurrection of the "Central Kingdom" / Lai-Ha Chan, Pak K. Lee, and Gerald Chan -- Rising from within: China's search for a multilateral world and its implications for sino-us relations / Mingjiang Li -- China's participation in global trade negotiations /...

"This book aims to systematically examine the complex reality of water contestations between China and its neighboring countries. It provides a discussion on transboundary hydro-politics beyond the state-centric geopolitical perspective to dig into various political, institutional, legal,...

China-EU relations, after more than a decade of steady growth since the mid-1990s, are becoming increasingly more fluid and unpredictable. Observers who had been optimistic are now starting to warn of an impending downward spiral in Sino-European ties. This paper attempts to address these two...