"China's recent turn to multilateralism in its foreign policy, as evidenced in both its declaratory and operational policies, has been both apparent and demonstrated in China's increasing involvement in global and regional multilateral organizations. First and foremost, this involvement has been in the economic arena, but now, in the new century, it has remarkably advanced into international security institutions. This volume records, analyses, and attempts to conceptualize this phenomenal development in Chinese foreign policy and its impact on international relations ..." (Quoted from site)