Chinas International Roles
This collection examines changes in Chinas international roles over the past century. Tracing the links between domestic and external expectations in the PRCs role conception and preferred engagement patterns in world politics, the work provides a systematic account of changes in Chinas roles and the mechanisms of role taking. Individual chapters address the impact of Chinas history and identity on its bilateral role taking patterns with the USA, Japan, Africa, the Europe Union, and Socialist States as well as Chinas roles in international institutions, the G20, and East Asias Financial Order.
Each of the empirical chapters is written to a common template exploring the role of historical self-identification, altercasting, and domestic role contestation in shaping the PRCs roles. The volume provides an analytically coherent framework evaluating whether cooperation or conflict in Chinas international engagement is likely to increase, and if so, the extent to which this will follow from incompatible domestic demands and external expectations. By combining a theoretical framework with strong comparative case studies, this volume contributes to the ongoing debate on Chinas rise and integration into the international society and provides sound conclusions about the prospects for a transition of Chinas purpose in world politics.
Sebastian Harnisch is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University. His research focuses on international relations theory and comparative foreign policy analysis, and other topics in security policy.
Sebastian Bersick is Professor for the International Political Economy of East Asia at the Ruhr University Bochum. He is also Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations in the China and Asia-Pacific Program. His areas of research cover the political economy of EUAsia relations.
Jrn-Carsten Gottwald is Professor for East Asian Politics at the Ruhr University Bochum. His research interests cover the politics of regulation of financial services, EUChina relations and Chinese foreign economic policies.
Role Theory and International Relations
Edited by Cameron G. Thies, Arizona State University, and Juliet Kaarbo, University of Edinburgh
The Role Theory and International Relations Series aspires to attract and publish the latest and best research integrating knowledge in the field of International Relations with role theory. This aspiration cuts across a wide swath of subfields, including foreign policy analysis, peace and security studies, international political economy, diplomatic studies, and international organization. While each of these subfields of study is presently organized as an island of theory, this series intends to integrate their signature phenomena within a system of knowledge, a theory complex or an alliance among different subfields. This series showcases the ability of role theory to generate useful theoretical insights on its own or in combination with existing theories across these traditional subfields. Role theorys conceptual repertoire, plus its ability to span multiple levels of analyses and the major meta-theoretical divides in the discipline position it to be an important integrative force in the study of International Relations.
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States, leaders, and the microfoundations of behavioral international relations
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Ratifying the Kyoto protocol
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Edited by Sebastian Harnisch, Sebastian Bersick, and Jrn-Carsten Gottwald
Chinas International Roles
Challenging or supporting international order?
Edited by
Sebastian Harnisch, Sebastian Bersick and Jrn-Carsten Gottwald
First published 2016
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China's international roles : challenging or supporting international order? / edited by Sebastian Harnisch, Sebastian Bersick, Jrn-Carsten Gottwald.
pages cm. (Role theory and international relations ; 5)
1. ChinaForeign relations1949- I. Harnisch, Sebastian, editor of compilation. II. Bersick, Sebastian, 1968- editor of compilation. III. Gottwald, Jrn-Carsten, editor of compilation.
JZ1734.C5495 2015
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ISBN: 978-1-138-90381-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-69270-8 (ebk)
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Contributors
Sebastian Bersick is Professor for the International Political Economy of East Asia at the Ruhr University Bochum. He is also Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations in the China and Asia-Pacific Program. His areas of research cover the political economy of EUAsia relations. He has published widely, e.g. in the Asia Europe Journal and ASIEN and is a frequent commentator in national and international media.
Yudan Chen is Assistant Professor in the school of international relations and public affairs at Fudan University, China. His research interests include the history of international political thought (classical Greek and Chinese thought) and culture in international relations.
Yugang Chen is a professor in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University, China. His areas of interest include theories of international relations, European studies, and global governance.
Bart Dessein is Professor in Chinese language and culture at Ghent University, Belgium and Senior Associate of the Brussels-based European Institute for Asian Studies. His research focus is on Chinese philosophy, and its relation to politics and religion, both in traditional China and in contemporary China.
Niall Duggan is a lecturer in the Department of Government, University College Cork, Ireland. Nialls main area of research is in SinoAfrican relations, East Asias role in global governance reform, and non-traditional security issues.
