Rising Star

"This is an impressive volume. It offers a comprehensive and far-reaching analysis of the revolution in China's diplomatic behavior over the past decade." -Robert Ross, Boston College, coauthor of GREAT WALL AND EMPTY FORTRESS |"[An] important new book." - The Nation, 11/5/2007 |"Readers will find strong arguments for greater awareness of the new security outlook in China....Rising Star is certainly a work for the bookshelves of imaginative officers worldwide." -Edward B. Atkeson, Army, 9/1/2007 |"For advanced students and scholars concerned about the future of Sino-American relations, this is an important intellectual contribution. Highly recommended." - CHOICE, 8/1/2007 |"This is a significant book. It pulls together a comprehensive argument that only lies scattered in a multiplicity of other places. Gill's concluding policy recommendations are balanced and sound, and those germane to a strategic nuclear dialogue with China are especially important." -David M. Lampton, Director of China Studies, Johns Hopkins-SAIS |"The argument of this well-researched and useful volume is that since the middle of the last decade, Beijing's foreign and security policy have shifted away from previous unilateralism toward cooperation, consultation and the playing of a responsible and constructive role with respect to areas ranging from regional security to nuclear proliferation." -Arthur Waldron, Far East Economic Review Forum |"This is a scholarly, balanced and deeply researched book which makes a valuable contribution to an understanding of China's grand strategy and of how the new security diplomacy works in practice. It reads easily and deserves a wide readership not just among specialists but by generalists with foreign policy interests or involvement." -Stuart Harris, The China Journal |"Prominent Washington-based China specialist Bates Gill has applied his expertise in contemporary Chinese international security policy to fill what he sees as a gap in book-length studies of recent Chinese foreign and security policy. This important study is clearly organized, well written, and well documented; it is sure to be read widely." -Marc Lanteigne, University of St. Andrews, Journal of Asian Studies |"Gill's Rising Star offers an in-depth and timely illustration of China's evolving foreign policy and a careful description of challenges and opportunities. It also contains critical recommendations which, if heeded in Beijing and Western capitals, could lower the risks of misunderstanding and miscalculations over 'China's rise.'" -Christian Constantin, University of British Columbia, Pacific Affairs |"Drawing on author's own observations and through studies of primary sources, Rising Star is a timely analysis of important changes in Beijing's foreign policy....I feel that this book is an important contribution to our understanding of Beijing's security diplomacy in the age of China's rise. The book can be not only a helpful reference for China scholars and researchers, but also a useful textbook for graduate students." -Sheng Ding, Bloomsburg University, Journal of Chinese Political Science |"Bates Gill has written a clear and updated study of China's 'new security diplomacy' and the ways in which Chinese security thinking has changed in recent years." - Survival

Bates Gill is the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to joining CSIS, he served as inaugural director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., USA. A former holder of the Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China, Gill has also directed East Asia programs at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute. He is a coauthor of China the Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know about the Emerging Superpower (PublicAffairs, 2006).