China’s rise in the international arena is today an accepted fact. Once known as the Middle Kigdom, China is today set to alter the global power balance, forever. Although China’s ‘calculative strategy’ is premised on its ‘peaceful rise’, such changes in the international power equilibrium have seldom been without conflict and turbulence.

This timely and comprehensive volume would be of immense help to policy makers in Asia and Europe particularly, besides academics and journalists the world over.