Feeling safe, being strong: China's strategy of soft balancing through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

International Politics

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 664-685

  Song, Weiqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Chinese foreign policy; Shanghai Cooperation Organization; Sino American relations; soft balancing

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; FOREIGN POLICY; HEGEMONY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POLITICAL POWER; SECURITY THREAT;

CENTRAL ASIA; CHINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883545979     PISSN: 13845748     EISSN: 17403898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ip.2013.21     Document Type: Article

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