In 2005, veteran diplomat and Asia analyst Jeffrey Bader met for the first time with the then-junior U.S. senator from Illinois. When Barack Obama entered the White House a few years later, Bader was named the senior director for East Asian affairs on the National Security Council, becoming one of a handful of advisers responsible for formulating and implementing the administra...(展开全部)

"Future presidents will need to find the right balance in China policy, so as to maintain America's strength and watchfulness but not fall into the classic security dilemma, wherein each side believes that growing capabilities reflect hostile intent and responds by producing that reality. I believe that President Obama struck that balance." —From Obama and China's Rise In 2005,...(展开全部)

In The Latecomer's Rise, Muyang Chen reveals the nature and impact of a rapidly growing form of international lending: Chinese development finance. Over the past few decades, China has become the world's largest provider of bilateral development finance. Through its two national policy banks, the China Development Bank (CDB) and the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim), it ...(展开全部)

潘成鑫，毕业于北京大学和澳大利亚国立大学，澳大利亚迪肯大学国际关系学高级讲师、阿尔弗雷德·迪肯公民与全球化研究所研究员。研究领域包括中国外交、中美关系、中澳关系、西方中国学研究及批判性国际关系理论。曾任世界知识出版社《国际关系学名著系列》的编委，先后在墨尔本大学、香港科技大学、澳门大学、北京大学任访问学者，2015年秋应邀到外交学院讲学，2016年获澳大利亚联邦政府的Endeavour Research Fellowship。 张旗，北京大学博士。2012～2016年就读于北京大学国际关系学院，获北京大学法学（国际政治）博士学位，被评为北京大学和北京市优秀毕业生。2012年获山东大学法学（国际政治）硕士学位，所撰写的硕士论文被评为山东大学和山东省优秀硕士学位论文。主要研究方向是中国外交和全球治理。

Every new president raises many questions in the public mind. Because Barack Obama was a relative newcomer to the national political scene, he raised more questions than most. Would he prove to be a pragmatic centrist or would his politics of hope ultimately flounder on the rocky shoals of America's deep political divisions? What of his leadership style? How would the uncommonl...(展开全部)

This text is an attempt to analyze systematically the contrast in the results of post-Stalinist reform in China and Russia. It argues that there emerged a "transition orthodoxy" about how to reform the communist systems of political economy. However, it was deeply flawed. The advice which flowed from this orthodoxy was the primary cause of the Soviet disaster. The decision not ...(展开全部)

This text is an attempt to analyze systematically the contrast in the results of post-Stalinist reform in China and Russia. It argues that there emerged a "transition orthodoxy" about how to reform the communist systems of political economy. However, it was deeply flawed. The advice which flowed from this orthodoxy was the primary cause of the Soviet disaster. The decision not ...(展开全部)

Merle Goldman is Professor of History, Emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University.

Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Merle Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the unique role of the intellectual in government Her engrossing account of the relations between the intellectuals and the governing elites provides a map of understanding to some recent events in the turbulent histo...(展开全部)

Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented...(展开全部)