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Introduction : the Columbus syndrome of international relations -- A relational dance or a scripted Concert of Europe? -- The relational turn(s) in the Anglosphere and Sinosphere of international relations -- The guanxi of relationality -- Conclusion : a relational theory of international relations beyond the Eurocentric frame.

"This book offers a relational theory of International Relations (IR). To show the ways in which the relationality is foreshadowed in IR conversations it makes the following three points: i) it recovers a mode of IR theorizing as itinerant translation;ii) it deploys the concept and practices of guanxi (employed here as a heuristic device revealing the infinite capacity of international interactions to create and construct multiple worlds) to uncover the outlines of a relational IR theorizing; and iii) it demonstrates that relational theorizing is at the core of projects for worlding IR. By engaging with the phenomenon of relationality, Emilian Kavalski invokes the complexity of possible worlds and demonstrates new possibilities for powerful ethical-political innovations in IR theorizing. Thus, relational IR theorizing emerges as an optic which both acknowledges the agency of 'others' in the context of myriad interpretative intersections of people, powers, and environments (as well as their complex histories, cultures, and agency) and stimulates awareness of the dynamically-intertwined contingencies through which meanings are generated contingently through interactions in communities of practice. The book will have a strong appeal to the broad academic readership in Asian Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, International Relations theory and students and scholars of non-/post-Western International Relations and non-/post-Western Political Thought."--Provided by publisher.

pt. I. Historical and analytical perspectives on China's foreign policy -- part II. The domestic sources of China's foreign policy -- part III. The international impact of China's foreign policy -- part IV. China's bilateral interactions -- part V. China's regional strategies -- part VI. Outstanding issues in China's foreign policy.

Why are policymakers, scholars, and the general public so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable? World Politics at the Edge of Chaos suggests that the study of international politics needs new forms of knowledge to respond to emerging challenges such as the interconnectedness between local and transnational realities; between markets, migration, and social movements; and between pandemics, a looming energy crisis, and climate change. Asserting that Complexity Thinking (CT) provides a much-needed lens for interpreting these challenges, the contributors offer a parallel assessment of the impact of CT to anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric (post-human) International Relations. Using this perspective, the result should be less surprise when confronting the dynamism of a fragile and unpredictable global life.

Why are policymakers, scholars, and the general public so surprised when the world turns out to be unpredictable? World Politics at the Edge of Chaos suggests that the study of international politics needs new forms of knowledge to respond to emerging challenges such as the interconnectedness between local and transnational realities; between markets, migration, and social movements; and between pandemics, a looming energy crisis, and climate change. Asserting that Complexity Thinking (CT) provides a much-needed lens for interpreting these challenges, the contributors offer a parallel assessment of the impact of CT to anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric (post-human) International Relations. Using this perspective, the result should be less surprise when confronting the dynamism of a fragile and unpredictable global life.

"This book offers a unique analytical investigation of the international politics of the EU, China, and India in the context of their security strategies in Central Asia. It shows how the interaction between these three actors is likely to change the frameworks and practices of international relations. This is studied through their interactions with central Asia, using the framework of normative powers and the concept of regional security governance. Briefly, a normative power shapes a target state's attitudes and perceptions as it internalizes and adopts the perspectives of the normative power as the norm. The work comparatively studies the dynamics that have allowed Beijing, Brussels, and New Delhi to articulate security mechanisms in Central Asia, and become rising normative powers. This innovative study does not aim to catalog foreign policies, but to uncover the dominant perceptions, cognitive structures and practices that guide these actors' regional agency, as exemplified through the context of Central Asia. It will be an essential resource for anyone studying international relations, international relations theory, and foreign policy analysis."--Publisher's website

"In the wake of Soviet disintegration, Central Asia became an idiom for the ensuing confusion in the post-Cold War climate of international affairs, characterized by inter-state order and intra-state anarchy. Dynamic changes associated with the end of communism, the 'revival' of ethnic, religious and clan mobilization and the gradual involvement of various international actors, have inspired extensive scholarly and policy engagement with the region. Yet most analyses fail to bring Central Asia into the mainstream of systematic interrogation. This timely volume analyzes the quality of statehood in the region by assessing the complex dynamics of Central Asian state-making and focusing on the simultaneous patterns of socialization and internalization in the region. It straddles four different bodies of literature and addresses the systematic lacunae in all of them to investigate the localization effects of Russia, China, the EU and NATO on forms of post-Soviet statehood in Central Asia -- placing Central Asia in the study and practice of world politics."--Page 4 of cover

Addressing the need to 're-Orient' the research and policy agenda of international relations, this volume examines the prominent role of China in global politics and the relevance of the 'new regionalism' paradigm to China's international outreach.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 2. CHAPTER TWO: PEACE AS ORDER -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. What is Order? -- 2.2.1. The Cooperation Aspect -- 2.2.2. The Security Aspect -- 2.3. Different Theoretical Views on Order -- 2.3.1. Neorealist Perspective on Order -- 2.3.2. Neoliberal Perspective on Order -- 2.3.3. Constructivist Perspective on Order -- 2.3.4. Neoliberal-Constructivist Perspective on Order -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 3. CHAPTER THREE: ESTABLISHING SECURITY COMMUNITIES -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The Analytical Framework of Security Communities -- 3.2.1. Democratic Security Community -- 3.3. Initiating Security Communities -- 3.3.1. Hegemonic Power Revisited -- 3.3.1.A. Socialisation Power -- 3.3.1.B. The Security-Community-Order as Hegemonic Peace -- 3.3.2. Elite Security Community -- 3.3.2.A. Why Elites? -- 3.3.2.B. The Decision-Making Pattern of an Elite Security Community -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. CHAPTER FOUR: THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISATION OF THE BALKANS -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Norms and Rules -- 4.3. What is Socialisation? -- 4.3.1. Socialisation by International Organisation -- 4.3.2. Socialisation in International Organisations -- 4.3.3. The Socialisation Process -- 4.4. Why Are International Organisations Interested in Socialisation? -- 4.5. How Can Socialisation Extend Peace? -- 4.6. Conclusion -- 5. CHAPTER FIVE: THE CENTRALITY OF THE EU AND NATO IN EUROPEAN SECURITY -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The Terms of the Post-1999 European Order -- 5.2.1. Securitisation of Western Norms -- 5.2.1.A. Inclusion of the Balkans in the Integration Programmes of the EU and NATO -- 5.2.1.B. The Limitations of the UN and the OSCE -- 5.2.2. Functional Differentiation between the EU and NATO -- 5.3. The Effects of "9/11" -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 6. CHAPTER SIX: EXPORTING THE EU TO THE BALKANS -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. From a Union of Europe to the European Union -- 6.3. EU Approaches to the Balkans -- 6.3.1. Foreign Policy Approaches to the Balkans -- 6.3.1.A. Bulgaria and Romania -- 6.3.1.B. The Western Balkans -- 6.3.2. Enlargement into the Balkans -- 6.3.2.A. Bulgaria and Romania -- 6.3.2.B. The Western Balkans -- 6.3.2.C. Regional (Peaceful) Cooperative Interactions -- 6.4. Bulgaria -- 4.1. The EU-driven elite-socialisation -- 6.4.2. Foreign Policy Behaviour -- 6.5. Croatia -- 6.5.1. The EU-driven elite-socialisation -- 6.5.2. Foreign Policy Behaviour -- 6.6. Conclusion -- 7. CHAPTER SEVEN: NATO'S PROJECTION OF ORDER TO THE BALKANS -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. NATO Background -- 7.3. NATO after the Cold War -- 7.4. Association -- 7.4.1. Romania -- 7.4.1.A. Context of NATO Involvement -- 7.4.1.B. International Behaviour -- 7.5. Enforcement -- 7.5.1. Serbia/Montenegro -- 7.5.1.A. Supportive Enforcement -- 7.5.1.B. Peace-Enforcement -- 7.5.1.C. Preventive Enforcement -- 7.6 Conclusion -- 8. CHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSION -- 8.1. Research Summary: The Hegemonic Peace Project - A Contradiction in Terms? -- 8.2. The Elite Security Community of the Balkans: Problems -- 8.3. Peace in the Balkans: Prospects.