As China has grown stronger, some observers have identified an assertive turn in Chinese
foreign policy. Evidence to support this argument includes the increasingly frequent …

The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive
insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globalization. Taking in the cultural …

How have different cultures and peoples constructed their political communities and
organized their international life in history? In which ways has order been differently …

This paper develops an English School–informed approach to theorize hegemonic order
using an explicitly social lens. It conceptualizes the architecture of hegemonic order as …

The much hyped rise of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has lately
been met with equally fervent declarations of their demise. Amid slowing growth in many of …

This article investigates the entanglement of the rising Chinese power with the liberal global
order in negotiating for normative change. Drawing upon the English School theoretical …

As Chinese leaders endeavor to maintain the international environment aligned with their
strategic aim of realizing the “dream of national rejuvenation,” the remarkable increase in …

Predictions of 'American decline'have come and gone before, apparently in cycles, leading
some to regard it as a cultural trope stemming from domestic insecurities rather than a …

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just
forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to …

The contributors attempt to look into how China and Europe differently interpret political
concepts such as: sovereignty, soft power, human rights, democracy, stability, strategic …