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Lukas K. Danner. 2018. China’s Grand Strategy: Contradictory Foreign Policy?

Lukas K. Danner. 2018. China’s Grand Strategy: Contradictory Foreign Policy? Book Reviews Journal of Asian Security Book Reviews and International Affairs 7(1) 124–137, 2020 the Author 2020 Reprints and permissions: in.sagepub.com/journals-permissions-india DOI: 10.1177/2347797020906653 journals.sagepub.com/home/aia Lukas K. Danner. 2018. China’s Grand Strategy: Contradictory Foreign Policy? Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 207 pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-65777-6. Lukas K. Danner’s book, China’s Grand Strategy: Contradictory Foreign Policy?, provides an overarching, uncommon and relatively ingenious theoretical approach to the foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over a period of nearly two decades. This has been a period when China has been increasingly portrayed by a largely Western-oriented and sometimes biased media and academia as a country with mixed foreign policy strategies and policy oscillations. The author uses a process-tracing method within case studies to provide an exhaustive study on how the PRC’s foreign policy has been and still is misconstrued by various state actors, particularly by successive US administrations. As the author himself puts it, there are several different viewpoints about China’s grand strategy… First, some schol- ars believe that China either has no grand strategy and is still in search of one or is merely acting pragmatically. Second, there is an argument that China does have a grand strategy but it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs SAGE

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Book Reviews Journal of Asian Security Book Reviews and International Affairs 7(1) 124–137, 2020 the Author 2020 Reprints and permissions: in.sagepub.com/journals-permissions-india DOI: 10.1177/2347797020906653 journals.sagepub.com/home/aia Lukas K. Danner. 2018. China’s Grand Strategy: Contradictory Foreign Policy? Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 207 pp. ISBN: 978-3-319-65777-6. Lukas K. Danner’s book, China’s Grand Strategy: Contradictory Foreign Policy?, provides an overarching, uncommon and relatively ingenious theoretical approach to the foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over a period of nearly two decades. This has been a period when China has been increasingly portrayed by a largely Western-oriented and sometimes biased media and academia as a country with mixed foreign policy strategies and policy oscillations. The author uses a process-tracing method within case studies to provide an exhaustive study on how the PRC’s foreign policy has been and still is misconstrued by various state actors, particularly by successive US administrations. As the author himself puts it, there are several different viewpoints about China’s grand strategy… First, some schol- ars believe that China either has no grand strategy and is still in search of one or is merely acting pragmatically. Second, there is an argument that China does have a grand strategy but it

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