The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on China, yet the angle of innovation has not been properly addressed within the field. This book explores innovation in China from an International Relations perspective in terms of four areas: foreign and security policy, international relations theory, soft power/image management, and resistance.

Introduction Part I: Innovation in foreign and security policy 1. Innovation Through Debate and Differentiation: Chinese nuclear doctrine since the reform era Nicola Horsburgh 2. China and Globalization: Innovating Chinese Development Cooperation Ward Warmerdam Part II: Theoretical innovation: Chinese school of International Relations Theory 3. Narrating a Discipline: The search for innovation in Chinese International relations Linsay Cunningham-Cross 4. "You need to do something that the Westerners cannot understand" - The Innovation of a Chinese School of IR Peter Marcus Kristensen and Ras Tind Nielsen Part III: Innovation in image management 5. Confucius Institutes as innovative Tool of China's Cultural Diplomacy Falk Hartig 6. Image in transformation: Guangzhou reinventing itself for the Asian Games 2010 Annukka Kinnari Part IV: Innovation in resistance 7. Un-innovative Censorship, Innovative Resistance: The Internet, forbidden words and the humorous homonyms of Egao Astrid Nordin

Nicola Horsburgh is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict within the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford, UK.

Astrid Nordin is lecturer in China in the Modern World at Lancaster University, UK.

Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International Studies at Warwick University, UK.