The first study to systematically analyze the patterns of China's foreign policy crisis behavior after the Cold War.

Kai He is Associate Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. From 2009 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton-Harvard 'China and the World Program' (CWP). He is the author of Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific: Economic Interdependence and China's Rise (2009) and the co-author of Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior (2013). His research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the East-West Center in Washington DC, and the East Asia Institute in Seoul.

1. China's foreign policy crises after the Cold War; 2. Political survival and China's crisis behavior; 3. The Yinhe incident and the Taiwan Strait crisis; 4. The embassy bombing incident and the EP-3 mid-air collision; 5. The Impeccable incident and the boat collision crisis; 6. The Scarborough shoal dispute and Diaoyu/Senkaku purchase crisis; 7. Leadership transition and China's future crisis behavior; Conclusion.