To say that the rise of China has captured the popular attention is something of an understatement. Hardly a day goes by without the publication of a new study that confidently predicts China's future - be that a focus on internal challenges and potential collapse, or China's rise to inevitable global dominance. The aim of this eight-volume collection is to provide, in a single resource, an overarching view of the totality of China's place in the world.

VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES China and the US: Comparable Cases of 'Peaceful Rise'? - Barry Buzan and Michael Cox The Development of International Relations Theory in China - Qin Yaqing The Tragedy of Offensive Realism: Classical Realism and the Rise of China - Jonathan Kirshner Will China's Rise Lead to War? - Charles Glaser The Rise of Chinese Exceptionalism in International Relations - Feng Zhang Invocations of Chinese Traditions in International Relations - Gilbert Rozman Is China Becoming More Aggressive? A Neoclassical Realist Analysis - Camilla Sørensen China in the North Korean Nuclear Crises: 'Interest' and 'Identity' in Foreign Behaviour - Hochul Lee Extract from The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State - Zhang Weiwei The Power Strategy of Chinese Foreign Policy: Bringing Theoretical and Comparative Studies Together - Chen Zhimin and Chang Lulu The Rise of China in Chinese Eyes - Yan Xuetong International Relations Studies in China: History, Trends, and Prospects - David Shambaugh Chinäs Search for a Grand Strategy: A Rising Great Power Finds Its Way - Wang JisiVOLUME TWO: MAKING FOREIGN POLICY China's Global Activism: Strategy, Drivers, and Tools - Phillip Saunders Personality, Ideology and Decisionmaking - Michael Hunt The Operational Code of Mao Zedong: Defensive or Offensive Realist? - Huiyun Feng China's Foreign- and Security-Policy Decision-Making Processes under Hu Jintao - Jean-Pierre Cabestan The Central Leadership, Supraministry  Coordinating Bodies, State Council ministries, and Party Departments - Lu Ning Chinäs "Quiet Diplomacy": The International Department of the  Chinese Communist Party - David Shambaugh China's Assertive Behaviour - Part Three: The Role of the Military in Foreign Policy - Michael Swaine Beyond Spy vs Spy: The Analytic Challenge of Understanding Chinese Intelligence Services - Peter Mattis Domestic Institutional Constraints on Chinäs Leadership in East Asian Economic Cooperation Mechanisms - Margaret Pearson Redefining Foreign Policy Impulses toward Africa: The Roles of the MFA, the MOFCOM and China Exim Bank - Lucy Corkin China's Foreign and Security Policy for Its Territorial Periphery - Carla Freeman and Drew Thompson Changing Media, Changing Foreign Policy in China - Susan Shirk China's New Think Tanks: Where Officials, Entrepreneurs, and Scholars Interact - Cheng Li Foreign Policy Implications of Chinese Nationalism Revisited: The Strident Turn -  Suisheng ZhaoVOLUME THREE: CHINA AND "TRADITIONAL" PARTNERS - THE DEVELOPED WORLD AND (SOUTH)EAST ASIA The Rise of China and the Future of the West: Can the Liberal System Survive? - G. John Ikenberry The Gathering Storm: China's Challenge to US Power in Asia - John Mearscheimer China-Japan Relations in the Post-Koizumi Era: A Brightening Half-Decade? - Chien-Peng Chung Chinäs ¿Two Koreas¿ Policy: Achievements and Contradictions - David Hundt Understanding China's Regional Rise: Interpretations, Identities and Implications - Shaun Breslin The Sino- Russia Strategic Partnership. How Close? Where To? - Gilbert Rozman Politics of Accommodation of the Rise of China: The case of Australia - Baogang He The Shifting Triangle: Sino-Japanese-American Relations in Stressful Times - June Teufel Dreyer Multipolarity, Multilateralism and Beyond...? EU - China Understandings the International System - David A. Scott A Power Audit of EU China Relations: Executive Summary - John Fox and Francoise Godement G2 in G20: China, the United States and the World after the Global Financial Crisis - Geoffrey Garrett Patriotism, Nationalism and China's US Policy: Structures and Consequences of Chinese National Identity - Peter Hays Gries, Qingmin Zhang, H. Michael Crowson and Huajian Cai Who¿s Socializing Whom? Complex Engagement in Sino-ASEAN Relations - Alice D. BaVOLUME FOUR: CHINA AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD (INCLUDING DEVELOPING ASIA) China and the Developing World - Lowell Dittmer Waltzing with Goliath: Philippines-China Engagement in Uncharted Waters - Aileen San Pablo-Baviera Myanmar in Contemporary Chinese Foreign Policy - Robert Sutter Central Asia-China Relations and Their Relative Weight in Chinese Foreign Policy -  Jean-Pierre Cabestan India in China's Foreign Policy - G. Venkat Raman Exploring the Neglected Constraints on Chindia: Analysing the Online Chinese Perception of India and Its Interaction with China's Indian Policy - Simon Shen Is China Playing a Dual Game in Iran? - John Garver From the Arab Spring to the Chinese Winter: The Institutional Sources of Authoritarian Vulnerability and Resilience in Egypt, Tunisia, and China - Steve Hess Sino-Turkish Strategic Partnership: Prudent Hedging or Irreversible Shift? - Atul Kumar Chinese Development Aid in Africa: What, Where, Why, and How Much? - Deborah Brautigam Harmony and Discord in China's Africa Strategy: Some Implications for Foreign Policy - Chris Alden and Christopher Hughes China Matters: China's Economic Impact in Latin America - Kevin Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski China, United States and Hegemonic Challenge in Latin America: An Overview and Some Lessons from Previous Instances of Hegemonic Challenge in the Region - Gonzalo Sebastián PazVOLUME FIVE: NATIONAL SECURITY AND TERRITORIAL ISSUES Between Core National Interest and a Harmonious World: Reconciling Self-Role Conceptions in Chinese Foreign Policy - C. Shih and Yin Jiwu Sino-Tibetan Dialogue: Much Misunderstanding, Little Room for Compromise - Michael Ramos-Lynch Islam in China: Accommodation or Separatism? - Dru Gladney Rapprochement between Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland: Implications for American Foreign Policy - Dennis Hickey Navigating the Grey Area - Hong Kong's External Relations under Tsang Administration - Simon Shen Identity, Sovereignty, and Economic Penetration: Beijing's Responses to Offshore Chinese Democracies - Wu Guoguang Explaining Chinese Solutions to Territorial Disputes with Neighbour States - Nie Hongyi Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining Chinäs Compromises in Territorial Disputes - M. Taylor Fravel Neighborly Relations: The Tumen Development Project and Chinäs Security Strategy - Carla Freeman China's Approach to International Law - Junwu Pan Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands: The Pending Controversy from the Chinese Perspective - Zhongqi Pan Inside Chinäs War on Terrorism - Martin WayneVOLUME SIX: CHINA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY The Fact and Fiction of Sino-African Energy Relations - Erica Downs Chinese MNCs as China's New Long March: A Review and Critique of the Western Literature - Jean-Marc Blanchard Sino-Capitalism: Chinäs Reemergence and the International Political Economy - Christopher McNally Re-Engagement with the Global Economy - Shaun Breslin Economic Statecraft in China's New Overseas Special Economic Zones: Soft Power, Business or Resource Security? - Deborah Bräutigam and Tang Xiaoyang Coping with Chinäs Financial Power - Ken Miller China Trade Policy Review: A Political Economy Approach - Changyuan Luo and Jun Zhang Facts about and Impacts of FDI on China and the World Economy - Yuqing Xing The Emperor¿s New Clothes: Intellectual Property Protections in China - Patricia Campbell and Michael Pecht Going Out: An Overview of China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment - Nargiza Salidjanova Chinäs Sovereign Wealth Funds: Origins, Development, and Future Roles - Stephen Thomas and Ji Chen Chinäs Pursuit of Free Trade Agreements: Is China Exceptional? - Yang Jiang Chinäs New Leftists and the China Model Debate after the Financial Crisis - Charles W. Freeman III and Wen Jin YuanVOLUME SEVEN: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE China and Global Governance - Hongying Wang and James Rosenau China and the Processes of Cooperation in UN Security Council Deliberations - Joel Wuthnow Chinäs Shifting Attitude towards United Nations Peacekeeping Operations - Stefan Stähle China and the Future of International Adjudication - Julian Ku Extract from China's New Engagement in the International System - Nina Hachigian with Winny Chen and Christopher Beddor Between Confrontation and Assimilation: China and the Fragmentation of Global Financial Governance - Injoo Sohn China and the IMF: From Mimicry towards Pragmatic International Institutional Pluralism - Peter Ferdinand and Jue Wang Emerging World Order? From Multipolarity to Multilateralism in the G20, the World Bank, and the IMF - Robert Wade China and Climate Justice: Moving beyond Statism - Paul G. Harris, Alice Chow and Rasmus Karlsson China, Natural Resources, Sovereignty and International Law - Ben Saul China at the Global Summit Table: Rule-Taker, Deal-Wrecker or Bridge-Builder? - Jenny Clegg China Engages Global Health Governance: Processes and Dilemmas - Lai-Ha Chan, Pak K. Lee and Gerald Chan Rethinking global governance: a China model in the making? - Lai-Ha Chan, Pak K. Lee and Gerald ChanVOLUME EIGHT: CHINA CHALLENGES AND GLOBAL ISSUES Global Challenges and China's Complexity - Shi Yinhong China and the Global Jihad Network - Degang Sun China in Cyberspace - Nigel Inkster Chinäs Arctic Aspirations - Linda Jakobson and Jingchao Peng China and Global Energy Markets - Peter Cornelius and Jonathan Story Extract from A Balancing Act: China's Role in Climate Change - Karl Hallding, Guoyi Han and Marie Olsson China and International ¿Human Rights Diplomacy' - Yuchao Zhu Global Economic Crisis and China's Challenge to Global Hegemony: A Neo-Gramscian Approach - Sheila Ruckie Chinatowns and Borderlands Inter-Asian Encounters in the Diaspora - Evelyn Hu-DeHart Immigrant China - Frank Pieke Will China's Water Shortage Shake the World's Food Security? - Jia Shaofeng et al. China's Distant Water Fishing Industry: Evolving Policies and Implications - Tabitha Mallory Asian Leadership in Outer Space in the 21st Century: From Science and Technology to Space Law - Yun Zhao China's Illiberal Challenge - Nazneen Barma and Ely Ratner