Edited by Evelyn Goh, Professor of Strategic Policy Studies and Director of Research at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University

Evelyn Goh is the Shedden Professor of Strategic Policy Studies at the Australian National University, where she is also the Director of Research at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

Cheng Guan Ang, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.
Aileen S.P. Baviera, University of the Philippines.
John D. Ciorciari, University of Michigan.
Neil Devotta, Wake Forest University.
Ralf Emmers, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Rosemary Foot, University of Oxford.
Michael A. Glosny, National Defense University, Washington D.C.
Evelyn Goh, Australian National University.
Rana Siu Inboden, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.
Scott L. Kastner, University of Maryland, College Park.
James Reilly, University of Sydney.
David I. Steinberg, Georgetown University.
Pichamon Yeophantong, University of New South Wales.

"Evelyn Goh's edited volume, Rising China's Influence in Developing Asia, is a welcome addition to efforts at presenting systematic, theoretically informed analyses of the way the PRC exercises power." - Ja Ian Chong, Associate Professor, Political Science at the National University of Singapore

"A timely and well written work that is marked by a cohesiveness quite unusual for an edited volume. Evelyn Goh has made a substantial contribution to our understanding of Chinas influence or its lack of influence. She has clearly underscored the importance of this lack of influence as it could lead to possible unintended consequences for East Asia and International relations if China prefers to wield its power when its influence fails." - Kevin Cooney, International Affairs: 93, 2017

"This volume, edited by Evelyn Goh, assesses the degree of Chinese influence on the developing countries of east, south-east and south Asia, through individual country case-studies and by examining issue areas... A valuable book for anyone who wants to understand the ways in which international influence works." - Joel Campbell (Troy University), International Affairs: 93, 2017

"Goh and her contributors move beyond speculations about China's rise to examine the ways China's growing capabilities may, or may not, bring greater international influence. The book combines a provocative re-consideration of the ways international influence works with a close examination of China's influence over many of its smaller neighbours in Asia. Impressive in its theoretical and empirical richness, this should be required reading for anyone trying to understand China's changing international role in the twnety-first century." - Avery Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania

"This volume offers the most updated and in-depth analysis to date of China's influence over its developing neighbours. The contributors uncover the distinctive Chinese way of exercising power, but also expose China's suprisingly limited success in shaping the behaviour of targeted neighbours, even in overwhelmingly asymmetric power relationships. The book also lays down a theoretical framwork, which could be further tested if the power dynamic continues to favour a stronger China. It is a must-read study for policy makers and policy watchers inAsia, as well as those interested in theorizing power." - Zhimin Chen, Fudan University

"Whilst growing Chinese power and influence is often taken for granted as being self-evidently true, this volume digs deep into real world case studies to identify different dimensions and levels of influence. It shows that is it harder to find cases of China trying to force change on others than the common sense understanding of Chinese power would have us believe. Crucially, the contributors do not just ask what China does and wants; they focus on the agency of those who are the 'recipients' of Chinese influence, and how domestic actors in developing Asia have responded to-and often mediated-Chinese influence." - Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick

"Rising China's Influence in Developing Asia is a timely and important work in the ongoing chronicle of the rise of China." - Amy King, Asian Politics & Policy