CHINA AMONG UNEQUALS

“Brantly Womack has made an enormous contribution to the study of Asian international order by writing this fascinating and deeply insightful book. Collectively the essays in the volume deconstruct, for the first time, the influential myth that China has always treated her neighbors as equals. Indeed, this is the best analysis — theoretically as well as empirically — of asymmetry as a prevailing feature of East Asian international relations. It is highly original, and highly recommended.”

“This book is an ambitious intellectual challenge to the conventional understandings of international relations in general and of China's rise in particular. Theoretically robust and empirically rich, Womack's book provides a watershed interpretation of China's ascendancy in Asia, the implication of which is bound to be global in nature.”

“Womack's original attempt to formulate a new framework to explain and perhaps to devise new and realistic principles to guide the relations between unequal states is an important contribution in itself.”See full review

“It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the study of Asian IR has reflected, rather than determined, broader developments in the field of international relations theory. Brantly Womack's China Among Unequals represents a sophisticated effort to reverse that dynamic, and place Asia in the centre rather than the periphery of theorizing on international relations.”