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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. China's Economic Reform Pattern: Fundamentals of "Infinite" Transition -- Chapter 3. Resources, Trends and Goals of Chinese Military Modernization -- Chapter 4. Limits for Continuity and Change in Political Transformations -- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

About the Author -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Challenges to the Existing IR System and How They Are Viewed in the IR Literature in the Western and Non-Western Segments of the World -- 2.1 Core Agenda of European and American Studies -- 2.2 West-Centric and East-Centric Approaches -- 2.3 Non-Western Agenda in International Literature -- 2.4 Attesting the Russian Findings -- 2.5 Comparing Russian and Chinese Conceptualizations of a Non-Western Reality -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: From the Hegemonic Unipolar to the Multipolar World: Structural Transformation of the International System and Global Strategic Balance, Plus Its Consequences for the Future -- 3.1 Rational of the World System Evolution -- 3.2 Evolving New Stage of the World Evolution and the Non-Western Dynamics -- 3.3 Core Hypotheses on the Link Between Economic and Political Modernization -- 3.4 Importance of the Social-Political Access Concept -- 3.5 Evolution of the System of Social and Political Order -- 3.6 Political Map of the Contemporary World: Formation and Evolution -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Appraising the Theory of Non-Western IR and the Other Options Available -- 4.1 Attempts to Further Conceptualize a Non-Western Reality and Its Consequences -- 4.2 Methodological Difficulties -- 4.3 Context of an Evolving Agenda of World Regional Studies -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: What Is Missing in the Western IR Theories: Space as a Core Dimension in World Regional Studies -- 5.1 Theoretical-Applied Aspects within the IR Regional Dimension -- 5.2 "Multilayerness" of the Space-Time Category in Contemporary International Affairs -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Transformation of Space (1): Macro-­Regionalization and New Spatial Actors of International Relations -- 6.1 Macroregionalization and Different Types of Regions in World Regional Studies