Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional

The Brazilian Institute of International Relations - IBRI is pleased to announce the publication of the special issue of the Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional - RBPI entitled "China rising - strategies and tactics of China's growing presence in the world".

This special edition of RBPI seeks to cast light on the central aspects of the international rising of China, and it can be read as an important contribution to the reflection made on the Global South on this subject.

RBPI is the most tradiotional scientific journal on International Relations published in Brazil and is also one of the most influential publication in this field in Latin America.

This special issue is freely reachable at http://www.scielo.br/rbpi.

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Editorial

China rising – strategies and tactics of China’s growing presence in the world: a special issue of RBPI, by Henrique Altemani de Oliveira & Antônio Carlos Lessa

Articles

• Mao’s steps in Monroe’s backyard: towards a United States-China hegemonic struggle in Latin America?, by Jose León-Manríquez & Luis F. Alvarez;
• Swords into ploughshares? China’s Soft Power strategy in Southeast Asia and its challenges, by Tony Tai-Ting Liu & Tung-Chieh Tsai;
• China’s rising Soft Power: the role of rhetoric in constructing China-Africa relations, by Lucy Jane Corkin;
• Japan and India: soft balancing as a reaction to China’s rise?, by Wellington Amorim & Antonio Henrique Lucena da Silva;
• The international implications of the Chinese model of development in the Global South: Asian Consensus as a network power, by Javier Vadell, Leonardo Ramos, Pedro Neves;
• Brazil, China, US: a triangular relation?, by José Augusto Guilhon-Albuquerque;
• China’s proposing behavior in Global Governance: the cases of the WTO Doha Round negotiation and G-20 process, by Hongsong Liu;
• South-South relations and the English School of International Relations: Chinese and Brazilian ideas and involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa, by  Joseph Marques & Anthony Spanakos;
• Between system maker and privileges taker: the role of China in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, by Truong-Minh Vu;
• Chinese energy policy progress and challenges in the transition to low carbon development, 2006–2013, by Larissa Basso & Eduardo Viola;
• The tale of a Trojan horse or the quest for market access? China and the World Trade Organization, by Sven Van Kerckhoven & Adriaan Luyten;
• Peaceful rise and the limits of Chinese exceptionalism, by Raquel Vaz-Pinto;
• Macau in China’s relations with the lusophone world, by Carmen Amado Mendes;
• Muddle or march: China and the 21st century Concert of Powers, by Weizhun Mao;
• Chinese engagement for Global Governance: aiming for a better room at the table?, by  Henrique Altemani de Oliveira & Alexandre César Cunha Leite.