Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I Contemporary American Society and Politics
- II Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
- III Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy
- IV Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
- V Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion
- VI Continuity and Change
- The Power of Change vs. the Power of Continuity: What Might be Achieved by the U.S. President in the First 100 Days of His Presidency? (On George W. Bush and Barack Obama's Examples)
- Continuity and Change in Sino-American Relations in the Light of ‘Complex’ Interdependence Theory
Continuity and Change in Sino-American Relations in the Light of ‘Complex’ Interdependence Theory
from VI - Continuity and Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I Contemporary American Society and Politics
- II Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Transatlantic Encounters
- III Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Foreign Policy
- IV Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Impact of American Values
- V Ideologia Americana or Americanism in Action: Exceptionalism and Democracy Promotion
- VI Continuity and Change
- The Power of Change vs. the Power of Continuity: What Might be Achieved by the U.S. President in the First 100 Days of His Presidency? (On George W. Bush and Barack Obama's Examples)
- Continuity and Change in Sino-American Relations in the Light of ‘Complex’ Interdependence Theory
Summary
The United States and our allies must recognize that in the upcoming “Pacific Century” no country will play a larger role in shaping the future of Asia than China, and no single bilateral relationship in the region will be more important to the US than the Sino-American one.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) 1996(…) given the respective global weight of our two countries [the United States and China], constructive interdependence between us is one of the key sources of global political and economic stability.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, China Daily, January 15, 2009Today, instead of living in isolation from each other, we are interdependent. Our combined economic strength makes it essential that we work closely to meet the many international challenges that we face together in the 21st Century.
John Negroponte, Beijing, January 8, 2009This paper explores one of the most perplexing issues of contemporary international relations: the rise of China and its consequences to the American position in the world and global security, as well as U.S.– Chinese correlation in terms of economy and politics. It presents the main assumptions of the ‘complex interdependence’ theory and its contribution to the explanation of the shift in security concerns of the world. In particular, the paper focuses on challenges and opportunities that are bound to appear in Sino-American relations after the presidential elections in 2008, with reference to past changes in the foreign policies of both countries.
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- The United States and the WorldFrom Imitation to Challenge, pp. 337 - 354Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2009