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Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China’s Policy Towards Japan (review)

Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China’s Policy Towards Japan (review) Reviews Xuanli Liao. Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China's Policy Towards Japan. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006. 37 pp. Hardcover 49.00, isbn 962­996­266­7. Xuanli Liao's book is a theoretical and empirical study of Chinese think tanks' role in China's foreign policy making, especially in China's policy toward Japan over the two decades subsequent to the Opening and Reform policy of the late 970s. Dr. Liao, who studied history and international relations in Beijing, Niigata, and Hong Kong, and currently teaches international relations at the University of Dundee, Scotland, is well trained in international politics and Chinese foreign policy. Her research sheds some new light on China's opaque decision-making process as Chinese society becomes more pluralistic and diverse. Conventional wisdom has it that China is a monolithic society, with foreign policy­making power heavily centered at Zhongnanhai, the compound of the Chinese Communist Party leadership. Liao's book, which takes the pluralistic elitism approach, argues that China's political system and the process of foreign policy making have become more dynamic, with more policy input from different sources. Although political elites still enjoy dominance in foreign policy decision making, there has been a growing "pluralistic trend" of policy input, most http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China’s Policy Towards Japan (review)

Zhu, Zhiqun.
China Review International , Volume 13 (2) – Jan 24, 2007
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Reviews Xuanli Liao. Chinese Foreign Policy Think Tanks and China's Policy Towards Japan. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006. 37 pp. Hardcover 49.00, isbn 962­996­266­7. Xuanli Liao's book is a theoretical and empirical study of Chinese think tanks' role in China's foreign policy making, especially in China's policy toward Japan over the two decades subsequent to the Opening and Reform policy of the late 970s. Dr. Liao, who studied history and international relations in Beijing, Niigata, and Hong Kong, and currently teaches international relations at the University of Dundee, Scotland, is well trained in international politics and Chinese foreign policy. Her research sheds some new light on China's opaque decision-making process as Chinese society becomes more pluralistic and diverse. Conventional wisdom has it that China is a monolithic society, with foreign policy­making power heavily centered at Zhongnanhai, the compound of the Chinese Communist Party leadership. Liao's book, which takes the pluralistic elitism approach, argues that China's political system and the process of foreign policy making have become more dynamic, with more policy input from different sources. Although political elites still enjoy dominance in foreign policy decision making, there has been a growing "pluralistic trend" of policy input, most

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