Shiping Hua is Calvin & Helen Lang Distinguished Chair in Asian studies, director of Asian Studies Program and professor of political science at the University of Louisville.

The US-China trade war seems to have erupted without warning, only to be paused with a temporary deal, but it has endured even after the Trump presidency. This timely volume brings together an assemble of international experts to explore the origins and process of the trade war. It considers the material and ideational factors behind the unraveling of a decades-long economic engagement in terms of a two-level game involving the domestic and international politics in both countries. The book sheds much light on the trade war and the dynamics of the emerging great-power competition between China and the United States.

• Part 1: Theories and the Global ContextIntroduction: Global Context and Personality Politics Shiping Hua, The University of Louisville Chapter 1: The Logic of Power Politics: The Thucydides Trap and the China-U.S. Trade WarGreg Moore, Colorado Christian University Chapter 2: IR Theory with Chinese Characteristics: Interpreting Global Politics Through Chinese Exceptionalism LensBenjamin Ho, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeChapter 3: The Liberal International Order after WWII. Michael Fowler, University of LouisvillePart 2: Domestic Factors (China)Chapter 4: Institutional Adaptation and Regime Resilience under Xi JinpingSteve Hess, Transylvania University Chapter 5: Great Power Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics and US-China Trade WarNgeow (Peter) Chow-Bing, University of Malaya, Malaysia Chapter 6: Chinese Domestic Politics and the Trade War. R. Lincoln Hines, Cornell University Chapter 7: The Radicalization of China’s Global Posture, Narratives and Strateg

Shiping Hua is Calvin & Helen Lang Distinguished Chair in Asian studies, director of Asian Studies Program and professor of political science at the University of Louisville.

The US-China trade war seems to have erupted without warning, only to be paused with a temporary deal, but it has endured even after the Trump presidency. This timely volume brings together an assemble of international experts to explore the origins and process of the trade war. It considers the material and ideational factors behind the unraveling of a decades-long economic engagement in terms of a two-level game involving the domestic and international politics in both countries. The book sheds much light on the trade war and the dynamics of the emerging great-power competition between China and the United States.

• Part 1: Theories and the Global ContextIntroduction: Global Context and Personality Politics Shiping Hua, The University of Louisville Chapter 1: The Logic of Power Politics: The Thucydides Trap and the China-U.S. Trade WarGreg Moore, Colorado Christian University Chapter 2: IR Theory with Chinese Characteristics: Interpreting Global Politics Through Chinese Exceptionalism LensBenjamin Ho, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeChapter 3: The Liberal International Order after WWII. Michael Fowler, University of LouisvillePart 2: Domestic Factors (China)Chapter 4: Institutional Adaptation and Regime Resilience under Xi JinpingSteve Hess, Transylvania University Chapter 5: Great Power Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics and US-China Trade WarNgeow (Peter) Chow-Bing, University of Malaya, Malaysia Chapter 6: Chinese Domestic Politics and the Trade War. R. Lincoln Hines, Cornell University Chapter 7: The Radicalization of China’s Global Posture, Narratives and Strateg

Shiping Hua is Calvin & Helen Lang Distinguished Chair in Asian studies, director of Asian Studies Program and professor of political science at the University of Louisville.

The US-China trade war seems to have erupted without warning, only to be paused with a temporary deal, but it has endured even after the Trump presidency. This timely volume brings together an assemble of international experts to explore the origins and process of the trade war. It considers the material and ideational factors behind the unraveling of a decades-long economic engagement in terms of a two-level game involving the domestic and international politics in both countries. The book sheds much light on the trade war and the dynamics of the emerging great-power competition between China and the United States.

• Part 1: Theories and the Global ContextIntroduction: Global Context and Personality Politics Shiping Hua, The University of Louisville Chapter 1: The Logic of Power Politics: The Thucydides Trap and the China-U.S. Trade WarGreg Moore, Colorado Christian University Chapter 2: IR Theory with Chinese Characteristics: Interpreting Global Politics Through Chinese Exceptionalism LensBenjamin Ho, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeChapter 3: The Liberal International Order after WWII. Michael Fowler, University of LouisvillePart 2: Domestic Factors (China)Chapter 4: Institutional Adaptation and Regime Resilience under Xi JinpingSteve Hess, Transylvania University Chapter 5: Great Power Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics and US-China Trade WarNgeow (Peter) Chow-Bing, University of Malaya, Malaysia Chapter 6: Chinese Domestic Politics and the Trade War. R. Lincoln Hines, Cornell University Chapter 7: The Radicalization of China’s Global Posture, Narratives and Strateg