Preface / Joseph Caron -- Introduction: International political economy and explanations of China's globalization … / David Zweig, Chen Zhimin -- Beyond the disciplinary heartlands: studying China's international political economy / Shaun A …. Breslin -- Soft balancing and reciprocal engagement: international structures and China's foreign policy choices / Chen Zhimin …

"In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh delivers the book that the world has been waiting for …--a sweeping account of China's growing prominence on the international stage. Thirty years ago, China's role in global affairs …, though, China's expanding economic power has allowed it to extend its reach virtually everywhere--from mineral mines in …