Understanding and preventing new conflicts and wars: China's peaceful rise as a strategic choice

Abstract

¹This is an un-refereed version of an address delivered to the Symposium Security and Co-operation in Asia Pacific: Chinese and Australian Perspectives, held at La Trobe University, Melbourne and jointly sponsored by East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 5–6 July 2004.

Notes

¹This is an un-refereed version of an address delivered to the Symposium Security and Co-operation in Asia Pacific: Chinese and Australian Perspectives, held at La Trobe University, Melbourne and jointly sponsored by East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 5–6 July 2004.

²Yu Xintian, The Tide of the Southern World—Impacts of the Developing Countries on the International Relations, (Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Science Press, 1993), pp. 46–9.

³Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, (Beijing: Press House of the Bureau of Translation and Editorial of the Central Commission of the CCP, 2002), p. 181.

⁴Elie Kedourie, Nationalism, (Beijing: Press House of the Bureau of Translation and Editorial of the Central Commission of the CCP, 2002), p. 138.

⁵John D. Steinbruner, Principles of Global Security, (Beijing: Xinhua Press, 2000), pp. 24–29.

⁶Yuan Peng, ‘Iraq War and Major Contradictions of the World Politics’, Contemporary International Studies, 5, (2003); Liu Ming, ‘Comparison of World System and World Society, International Order and World Order’, China Social Science, 2, (2004).

⁷Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence, (Shanghai: Sanlian Bookstore, 1998), pp. 314, 331.

⁸President of the United States of America, The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, Washington D.C., September 2002.

⁹Rajan Menon, ‘The End of Alliances’, World Policy Journal, 20, 2, (2003).

¹⁰Paul Kelly, ‘Australian for Alliance’, National Interest, (Spring 2003).

¹¹ Jiang Zemin's Report at 16th Party Congress, (Beijing: People's Publishing House, 2002), p. 47.

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Yu Xintian

YU, Xintian, Shanghai Institute for International Studies, No. 1, Lane 845, Julu Road, Shanghai 200040, China. Email: <[email protected]>