The Chinese government has more control over more wealth than any other government in world history. With the Communist Party controlling the "commanding heights" of the world's second-largest economy, China appears ideally structured to pursue economic statecraft, using economic resources toadvance its foreign policy goals. Yet as this book shows, domestic complications frequently constrain Chinese leaders. They have responded with a distinctive approach to economic statecraft: orchestration. Drawing upon extensive field research across Asia and Europe, Orchestration traces theorigins, operations, and effectiveness of China's economic statecraft.In this book, James Reilly examines the ideas and institutions at the heart of China's approach to economic statecraft, and assesses Beijing's orchestration in four cases: Myanmar, North Korea, Western Europe, and Central/Eastern Europe. China's unique experience as a planned economy, and then adevelopmental state, all under a single Leninist party, left Chinese leaders with unchallenged authority over their economy. However, despite successfully mobilizing companies, banks, and local officials to rapidly expand trade and investment abroad, Chinese leaders largely failed to influence keypolicy decisions overseas. For countries around the world, economic engagement with China thus yields more benefits with fewer costs than generally assumed.Orchestration engages three central questions. First, why does China deploy economic statecraft in this particular fashion? Secondly, when is China's economic statecraft most effective? Finally, what can the China case tell us about economic statecraft more broadly? The findings show how China useseconomic resources to exert influence abroad and identify when Beijing is most effective. By exploring the domestic drivers of China's economic statecraft, this book helps launch a new research field: the comparative study of economic statecraft.

Orchestration: China's Economic Statecraft Across Asia and Europe

Business & Money

Reilly, James

Economics

Oxford University Press

The rise and influence of public opinion on Chinese foreign policy reveals a remarkable evolution in authoritarian responses to social turmoil. James Reilly shows how Chinese leaders have responded to popular demands for political participation with a sophisticated strategy of tolerance, responsiveness, persuasion, and repression―a successful approach that helps explain how and why the Communist Party continues to rule China. Through a detailed examination of China's relations with Japan from 1980 to 2010, Reilly reveals the populist origins of a wave of anti-Japanese public mobilization that swept across China in the early 2000s. Popular protests, sensationalist media content, and emotional public opinion combined to impede diplomatic negotiations, interrupt economic cooperation, spur belligerent rhetoric, and reshape public debates. Facing a mounting domestic and diplomatic crisis, Chinese leaders responded with a remarkable reversal, curtailing protests and cooling public anger toward Japan. Far from being a fragile state overwhelmed by popular nationalism, market forces, or information technology, China has emerged as a robust and flexible regime that has adapted to its new environment with remarkable speed and effectiveness. Reilly's study of public opinion's influence on foreign policy extends beyond democratic states. It reveals how persuasion and responsiveness sustain Communist Party rule in China and develops a method for examining similar dynamics in different authoritarian regimes. He draws upon public opinion surveys, interviews with Chinese activists, quantitative media analysis, and internal government documents to support his findings, joining theories in international relations, social movements, and public opinion.

Strong Society, Smart State: The Rise of Public Opinion in China's Japan Policy (Contemporary Asia in the World)

History

Asia

Columbia University Press

History & complete working directions for albumen printing; includes historical & archival aspects.

Albumen and Salted Paper Book

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Light Impressions Corp

To mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China, expert writers from both countries have come together to analyze their relationship, addressing the question on many Australian minds: How should Australia respond to the seemingly unstoppable and dazzlingly swift rise of China? Highlighting security and economic issues, trade and investment, and political, diplomatic, and strategic challenges, this book examines the implications of Australia’s deepening engagement with China and takes on big questions, such as Could this global powerhouse become a military threat? and Will these two countries have healthy trade and diplomatic relations and a genuine, robust dialogue?

Australia and China at 40

Yuan, Jingdong

Australia & Oceania

University of New South Wales Press

With a president's foresight and a freed slave's wisdom, the African people work together to create a land that is united, ending the slave trade forever. Within this new reality, ancient natural health remedies from the jungles and rainforests are easily shared with the world. James Reilly's Lincoln's World, a reimagining of what could have been under Abraham Lincoln's presidency, describes how Africa leads humanity into the vastness of the cosmos and how these peace-loving citizens are the first to make contact with several different life forms from distant worlds. This novel is perfect for anyone desiring an escape, if only for a short time, from the greed and cruelty against fellow humans, wildlife, and even plant life on this unique planet of ours. Instead, read about a world full of kindness and understanding-a society we could have chosen.

Lincoln's World

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Outskirts Press

Celebrated for its ancient water wheels, the town of Hama is located on Syria’s longest river, the Orontes. Ottoman Hama was a stopover on the major north-south road of Syria as well as the center of a local economic zone of its own. Intertwined social networks linked townspeople to the peasants and pastoral nomads of Hama’s hinterland. By the early twentieth century a few elite and notable families had come to dominate the political and economic life of Hama and its outlying villages, setting the stage for the city’s dramatic entry into Syrian national life during the French Mandate and post-colonial periods. Based principally on local judicial archives, this book is a social history of Hama during the last two centuries of Ottoman rule. It examines the social and economic structures that defined people’s lives and that conditioned their participation in the historical changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dramatis personae include men and women, commoners and notables, merchants and artisans, and others who, taken together, represent a cross-section of a Middle Eastern society as they entered the world of global markets, European empires, and modern states.

A Small Town in Syria: Ottoman Hama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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