TY  - BOOK
AU  - SMITH Stephen N.
TI  - Harmonizing the periphery: China's neighborhood strategy under Xi Jinping
PY  - 2021///
KW  - CHINA
KW  -  FOREIGN POLICY
KW  -  LEADERSHIP
N2  - This paper takes ideas and identities seriously in the formation of diplomatic strategies. China, like all nations, conducts its diplomacy not only in response to the global balance of power but also in light of its own sense of proper place in the world. Rationalist or materialist approaches that assume China's pursuit of power or national interests as given overlook the cultural, historical, and ideational sources of Chinese strategic policy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2019.1651383
ER  -