Suisheng Sam Zhao's Publications
RECENT ARTICLE
Political Reform in The Diplomat special issue "China: What's Next?"
Understanding China's assertive foreign policy bhavior during the global financial meltdown in The European Financial Review, December 18, 2010
INTERVIEWS
Professor Zhao's most recent interview on Al-Jazeera, Saturday, November 12th.
Also, watch Professor Zhao's interview during his recent trip to Australia
BOOKS
2012 from Routledge: China and East Asian Regionalism: Economic and Security Cooperation and Institution-Building, Edited by Suisheng Zhao
To convey the image of a responsible power willing to contribute to regional stability and cooperation, China has shifted from a single-minded preference for bilateralism to an active participation in East Asian regionalism in the recent decades. This development has inspired discussions over whether a rising China could play a leadership role in building an institutionalized architecture for regional cooperation in East Asia. Nevertheless, this has not happened as East Asian regional cooperation and relevant activities remain mostly ad hoc and informal, especially when compared to regions such as Europe.
To what extent has China contributed or constrained the development of regionalism in East Asia? What are China's desired roles and objectives in East Asian regional cooperation? What is the level of trust that other regional players have for China in regional cooperation? This book seeks answers to these questions by exploring China's motivations and strategic calculations as well as its policy practices in East Asian economic and security cooperation.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary China.
2010 from Routledge: Grassroots Elections in China, Edited by Suisheng Zhao
This book carefully examines the implementation and effects of China’s village, township, and people’s congress elections, both in terms of democratizing the polity and spurring other changes in state-society relations.
2008 from Palgrave Macmillan: China and the United States: Cooperation and Competition in Northeast Asia, Edited by Suisheng Zhao
This edited book features leading scholars and policy analysts on China-US relations, that will appeal to scholars in Asian Studies, Political Science, Economics and International Studies. This is the only book that explores the implications of China's rise for the US-China relations with a focus on their cooperation and competition in Northeast Asia.In this edited volume, distinguished scholars and policy analysts explore how China's rise has brought great opportunities for cooperation as well as great challenges for geo-political competition between the United States and China.
2008 from Routledge: China-US Relations Transformed: Perspectives &Strategic Interactions, Edited by Suisheng Zhao
This book, written by leading scholars and policy analysts from both the US and China, explores the transformation and multifaceted nature of US-China relations, including how the political elite in both countries have defined their strategic objectives in response to Chinas rise and managed their relations accordingly.
2006 from M.E. Sharpe: Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Lawvs. Democratization, Edited by Suisheng Zhao
The growing disconnect between China's market-oriented economy with its emerging civil society, and the brittle, anacronistic, and authoritarian state has given rise to intense discussion and debate about political reform, not only by Western observers, but also among Chinese intellectuals. While some expect China's political reform to lead to democritazation, others have proposed to strengthen the institution of single-party rule and provide it with a solid legal base.
2004 from Stanford University Press: A Nation-State by Construction, Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism, by Suisheng Zhao
NEWS: Sam Zhao presented his findings from his ground-breaking book, Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism (Stanford University Press, 2004) at the Carnegie Endowment. David Lampton of SAIS provided further commentary, and Minxin Pei of Carnegie moderated the discussion. Click here for a transcript.
CARNEGIE SPONSORED PROGRAMS
China-US Relations in the New Global Context: Improving Multilateral
Cooperation among Today's Leading States
A report of the results of a series of specialist dialogues held in Vail, Berlin, Bejing, and Washington, D.C. between 2003 - 2005 written by Prof. Sam Zhao, Dean Tom Farer and Prof. Tim Sisk.
