Introduction: New dimensions of Chinese foreign policy / Sujian Guo, Shiping Hua --
Changing ideology in China and its impact on Chinese foreign policy / Jing Men --
Conceptualizing foreign policy : the "peaceful rise" debate among China's scholars / Catherine H. Keyser, Su Lin --
China rising and its foreign policy orientations : perspectives from China's emerging elite / Xiaoyu Pu, Guang Zhang --
China's contested rise : Sino-US relations and the social construction of great power status / Michael Alan Brittingham --
Tapping soft power : managing China's "peaceful rise" and the implications for the world / Wanfa Zhang --
"Peaceful rise" : China's public diplomacy and international image cultivation / Guoxin Xing --
China's new approach to North Korean nuclear issue : an economic interdependence / Han Lheem --
China's Middle East policy and its implications for US-China relations / Zhiqun Zhu --
The energy factor in China's foreign policy / Charles E. Ziegler --
Increasing interdependence between China and the U.S. and its implications for China's foreign policy / Chenghong Li.