Introduction
Part I. Interest and identity in Chinese foreign policy: what drives Chinese foreign policy?; who runs Chinese foreign policy?
Part II. Security challenges and strategies: China's Russia policy during the Cold War and after; deciphering the U.S. threat; the Northeast Asia regional system; China's other neighbors: the Asia-Pacific; China in the fourth ring
Part III. Holding together: territorial integrity and foreign policy: problems of stateness: Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; Taiwan's democratic transition and China's response
Part IV. Instruments of power: dilemmas of opening; military modernization: from people's war to power projection; soft power and human rights in Chinese foreign policy
Part V. Conclusion: threat or equilibrium?.
China's search for security by Andrew J. Nathan. ISBN 9780231140508. Published by Columbia University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.