China's Rise to Power in the Global Order

This book examines the foundations of China’s grand strategy as it is critical to any assessment of current and future Chinese regional and global strategic behavior, especially Beijing’s policies toward the USA. This eclectic study aims to analyze the Chinese and American current flexible grand strategies, based on present complexity and disorder. It identifies the major building blocks of both strategies, their major material, and ideational drivers and assesses how they might evolve in the future. Additionally, the author looks at China’s relations with important international players such as Russia, ASEAN, UN, EU, and BRICS.
Nicolai Mladenov is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science at Ghent University and a former senior diplomat at the Bulgarian Embassy in Brussels, Belgium.