This book poses and addresses several main questions about the major sources, patterns, and consequences of Chinese foreign policy behavior. It represents a joint venture into the seemingly forbidden territory of interdisciplinary inquiry in the study of Chinese foreign policy.

Preface to the Fourth Edition -- Theory and Practice -- Chinese Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice -- Structure and Process in the Making of Chinese Foreign Policy -- International Structures and Chinese Foreign Policy -- Interactions -- Sino-American Relations: Practicing Damage Control -- Sino-Russian Relations -- Japan and Europe in Chinese Foreign Relations -- China and the Third World: Patterns of Engagement and Indifference -- Policies and Issues -- Force and Diplomacy: China Prepares for the Twenty-First Century -- [In] [ter]dependence in China's Post-Cold War Foreign Relations -- Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations -- China and the Multilateral Economic Institutions -- China's Environmental Diplomacy -- Prospects -- Chinese Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect