Beyond Compliance argues that the record of China's international behavior since the 1970s indicates the long-term effectiveness of the multilateral system. Through its analysis of China's interaction with leading international organizations--such as the Conference on Disarmament, the IMF, and the United Nations Environmental Programme--it concludes that engagement with the multilateral system is the key to the gradual socialization of -rogue- states. Contrasting the People's Republic of China's post-1949 alienation from the international community with its increasing compliance since it...

China, the United Nations, and Human Rights The Limits of Compliance Ann Kent "An ambitious and impressive undertaking that makes a significant contribution to the understanding of how international regimes function and how China interacts with the international order."--R. Randle Edwards, Columbia University "Impressive. . . . Rarely does one encounter such fine, readable scholarship on such a timely, complex issue."--Choice "Kent combines primary and secondary research into a detailed case study that tells us important things about both China's relations with the external world and...

Beyond Compliance argues that the record of China's international behavior since the 1970s indicates the long-term effectiveness of the multilateral system. Through its analysis of China's interaction with leading international organizations--such as the Conference on Disarmament, the IMF, and the United Nations Environmental Programme--it concludes that engagement with the multilateral system is the key to the gradual socialization of "rogue" states. Contrasting the People's Republic of China's post-1949 alienation from the international community with its increasing compliance since it...