This volume examines the prominent role of China in global politics and the relevance of the 'new regionalism' paradigm to China's international outreach. It provides a comprehensive and critical assessment of China's impact on the global politics of regionalization, offers a novel application of analytical models, investigates the aspects of the Chinese practice of regionalization that set it apart, and demonstrates China's transformative potential in international life. Addressing the need to 're-Orient' the research and policy agenda of international relations, this comprehensive study demonstrates both the lack of language to engage with existing norms and standards and the difficulty of applying them to an evaluation of the global politics of China's 'non-Western' international agency.

Chapter 1 "Do as I do", EmilianKavalski; Part I Historical, Analytical, and Comparative Contexts of the Global Politics of China's Regionalization; Chapter 2 Regionalization in the Tianxia? Continuity and Change in China's Foreign Policy, FengZhang; Chapter 3 A Concealed Regionalization without Historical Roots, ShengDing; Chapter 4 China's Regionalization Policies, JeremyPaltiel; Chapter 5 Identity, Nationalism, and China's Policy towards Regionalization, Jing-dongYuan; Chapter 6 From Adapting to Shaping, EnyuZhang; Chapter 7 The Reluctance of Hegemons, GregAnderson; Chapter 8 "From Brussels to Beijing", DavidScott; Part II Insights from the Global Politics of China's Regionalization; Chapter 9 China and the Political Economy of Regionalization in East Asia, YongjinZhang; Chapter 10 China's Region-Building Strategy in Southeast Asia, RalphPettman; Chapter 11 Spreading the "Shanghai Spirit", StephenAris; Chapter 12 Reconstructing the Silk Road in a New Era, Carrie LiuCurrier, ManochehrDorraj; Chapter 13 Making a Region out of a Continent? China's Regionalization of Africa, EmilianKavalski; Chapter 14 China and Latin America, Julie M.Bunck; Chapter 15 China and South Pacific Regionalism, JianYang;