Report of Strategic Studies in China (2019)

This book is devoted to taking a lead in establishing a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary platform for exchanging fresh thinking in the field of strategic studies. The book gathers invited reports from prestigious scholars in such research areas as political philosophy, economy, history, international security and diplomacy.
The theme of the book is grand in nature, for the world is undergoing once-in-a-century great transformation, meanwhile China faces the critical moment for its great rejuvenation, how China thinks about and designs its relations with the world is a key issue in the international arena. The book reveals that the greatest challenge to China in this context is how to secure and extend its period of strategic opportunity, and actively shaping this period should be regarded as the core trend of its response. The aim of this book is threefold: firstly, to provide a comprehensive overview of the undergoing world transformation and its interaction with China; to analyze how China deals with internal and external challenges, why China could still have strategic opportunities and what will and should China do to sustain and reshape its period of strategic opportunity, secondly, to analyze how China deals with fierce strategic competition with the U.S., and how it develops its relations with other countries, especially great powers; to analyze the challenges that the BRI faces and how China reshapes it relations with other developing countries via cooperation on the BRI; thirdly, to provide a vivid picture of world transformation and China's design of its grand strategy, to investigate the key factors in securing China's sustainable development and its period of strategic opportunity, and indicates that the key is to develop a global vision and provide new strategic opportunities for the world, and the support comes from a stronger presence in the region and an optimized geopolitical and economic environment.
The book provides Chinese visions and wisdom on world transformation and strategic opportunities, reveals Chinese wisdoms in dealing with transformation and crises, all readers could learn more if they could keep calm and think.

Provides a comprehensive overview of world transformation and future of globalization, anti-globalization, how China think about such deep transitions In dealing with the so-called Once-in-a-Century Transformation, what will be China's grand strategy in the future? How about its foreign policy toward the U.S. and other great powers? Will China Change its role in international organizations and its strategy towards Asia? Provides a lot of internal materials about China's diplomacy and the visions of Chinese top leaders, so as to help to understand China's logic and statecrafts in dealing with internal and external crises

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Prof. Men Honghua serves as a Distinguished University Professor, Dean of School of Political Sciences & International Relations, President of Tongji Institute for China & World Studies, Tongji University. Prof. Men was Senior Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 2003, Japan Center for Economic Research from 2006 to 2007, Eisenhower Fellowships in 2011, University of Oxford from 2013 to 2014, and University of Tokyo in 2015. So far, he has published 10 monographs, 49 edited or co-authored books, 4 textbooks, 16 translations. He has published over 150 academic papers in professional journals such as Social Sciences in China.
Prof. XIAO Xi serves as a Distinguished University Professor, Dean of School of International & Public Affairs, Jilin University. Prof. Xiao was Visiting Scholar at Cornell University from 2006 to 2007, Senior Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford from 2013 to 2014, Senior Visiting Scholar at Waseda Universityin 2015. So far, she has published 15 monograph, edited or co-authored books. She has published over 70 academic papers in professional journals such as Journal of Political Science, World Economics and Politics, etc.

Inhalt
Chapter1. Honghua MEN and Xi XIAO, Shaping China's Period of Strategic Opportunity amid Once-in-a-Century Transformation.- Chapter2. LI Bin, Once-in-a-Century Transformation and the World Order.- Chapter3. LIU Zhenye, China's Position and Direction in the Once-in-a-Century Transformation.- Chapter4. LIU Hongzhong, Transformation of International Order, Globalization and External Constraints on China's Opening-up.- Chapter5. Angang HU, Grasping and Creating China' Important Period of Strategic Opportunity.- Chapter6. YAN Yilong, The Three-Circle Theory and China's Period of Strategic Opportunity.- Chapter7. Lei SUN, BRI in the Vision of Chinese Civilization and Construction of Global Ethical Consensus.- Chapter8. Honghua MEN, Strategic Thinking on the Rulemaking under the BRI.- Chapter9. Tianren GE and Ming ZHANG, Chain Risks and Solutions for Infrastructure Investment of BRI.- 10. LI Shu and WU Liang, Reshaping Perceptions: A Study on Chinese Soft Power in the Context of BRI.