This book examines the foundations of China's grand strategy as it is critical to any assessment of current and future Chinese regional and global strategic behavior, especially Beijing's policies toward the USA. This eclectic study aims to analyze the Chinese and American current flexible grand strategies, based on present complexity and disorder. It identifies the major building blocks of both strategies, their major material, and ideational drivers and assesses how they might evolve in the future. Additionally, the author looks at China's relations with important international players such as Russia, ASEAN, UN, EU, and BRICS. Nicolai Mladenov is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science at Ghent University and a former senior diplomat at the Bulgarian Embassy in Brussels, Belgium.

Auteur
Nicolai Mladenov is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science at Ghent University, Belgium, and a former Senior Diplomat at the Bulgarian Embassy in Brussels, Belgium.

Contenu
1.A world in a dire straits, why and how the book was conceived2.American post WWII Grand Strategy and modes of world leadership3.The rise of China. Genesis and evolution of China's rise strategy4.Basic pre-COVID-19 components of China Dream Grand Strategy5.Dialectics of China Dream and U.S. responses6.New system of international relations which way forward?7.Cold War 2.0 and Mega Depression risks?8.Global COVID-19 crisis, Then What?