Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations
Constructing a Chinese School of International Relations

Author: Yongjin Zhang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-10

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1317433106

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This edited volume offers arguably the first systemic and critical assessment of the debates about and contestations to the construction of a putative Chinese School of IR as sociological realities in the context of China’s rapid rise to a global power status. Contributors to this volume scrutinize a particular approach to worlding beyond the West as a conscious effort to produce alternative knowledge in an increasingly globalized discipline of IR. Collectively, they grapple with the pitfalls and implications of such intellectual creativity drawing upon local traditions and concerns, knowledge claims, and indigenous sources for the global production of knowledge of IR. They also consider critically how such assertions of Chinese voices and articulation of their ambition for theoretical innovation from the disciplinary margins contribute to the emergence of a Global IR as a truly inclusive discipline that recognizes its multiple and diverse foundations. Reflecting the varied perspectives of both the active participants in the Chinese School of IR debates within China and the observers and critics outside China, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of IR theory, Non-Western IR and Chinese Studies.

China and International Theory
China and International Theory

Author: Chih-yu Shih et al.

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-27

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0429751060

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Major IR theories, which stress that actors will inevitably only seek to enhance their own interests, tend to contrive binaries of self and other and ‘inside’ and ‘outside’. By contrast, this book recognizes the general need of all to relate, which they do through various imagined resemblances between them. The authors of this book therefore propose the ‘balance of relationships’ (BoR) as a new international relations theory to transcend binary ways of thinking. BoR theory differs from mainstream IR theories owing to two key differences in its epistemological position. Firstly, the theory explains why and how states as socially-interrelated actors inescapably pursue a strategy of self-restraint in order to join a network of stable and long-term relationships. Secondly, owing to its focus on explaining bilateral relations, BoR theory bypasses rule-based governance. By positing ‘relationality’ as a key concept of Chinese international relations, this book shows that BoR can also serve as an important concept in the theorization of international relations, more broadly. The rising interest in developing a Chinese school of IR means the BoR theory will draw attention from students of IR theory, comparative foreign policy, Chinese foreign policy, East Asia, cultural studies, post-Western IR, post-colonial studies and civilizational politics.

Chinese Politics and International Relations
Chinese Politics and International Relations

Author: Nicola Horsburgh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-03

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1317961587

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The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on China, yet the angle of innovation has not been properly addressed within the field. This book explores innovation in China from an International Relations perspective in terms of four areas: foreign and security policy, international relations theory, soft power/image management, and resistance. Under the complex condition of globalisation, innovation becomes a particularly useful analytical concept because it is well suited to capturing the hybridity of actors and processes under globalisation. By adopting this theme, studies not only reveal a China struggling to make the future through innovation, but also call attention to how China itself is made in the process. The book is divided into four sections: Part 1 focuses on conceptual innovation in China’s foreign and security policies since 1949. Part 2 explores theoretical innovation in terms of a potential Chinese school of International Relations Theory. Part 3 expands on innovation in terms of image management, a form of soft power, in particular how China exports its image both to a domestic and foreign audience. Part 4 highlights how innovation is used in China by grassroot popular groups to resist official narratives. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies, Chinese foreign policy and international relations, international relations theory and East Asian security.

A Relational Theory of World Politics
A Relational Theory of World Politics

Author: Yaqing Qin

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-05

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1107183146

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A reinterpretation of world politics drawing on Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions to argue for a focus on relations amongst actors, rather than on the actors individually.

The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform
The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform

Author: David M. Lampton

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0804740569

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This is the most comprehensive, in-depth account of how Chinese foreign and security policy is made and implemented during the reform era. It includes the contributions of more than a dozen scholars who undertook field research in the People's Republic of China, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Chinese Perspectives on International Relations
Chinese Perspectives on International Relations

Author: G. Chan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-08

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 023039020X

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Based on primary sources and field research, this book is the first of its kind to probe into the Chinese mind set to see how they perceive international relations. It analyses the factors of power, Marxism, culture, and modernisation that shape the Chinese thinking on IR. It explores the Chinese understanding of the state and interstate relations, discusses the merits of an 'IR theory with Chinese characteristics', and assesses the problems and prospects of the development of international studies in China.

Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power
Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power

Author: Yan Xuetong

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2013-08-25

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1400848954

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From China's most influential foreign policy thinker, a vision for a "Beijing Consensus" for international relations The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy thinker, sets out a vision for the coming decades from China's point of view. In the West, Yan Xuetong is often regarded as a hawkish policy advisor and enemy of liberal internationalists. But a very different picture emerges from this book, as Yan examines the lessons of ancient Chinese political thought for the future of China and the development of a "Beijing consensus" in international relations. Yan, it becomes clear, is neither a communist who believes that economic might is the key to national power, nor a neoconservative who believes that China should rely on military might to get its way. Rather, Yan argues, political leadership is the key to national power, and morality is an essential part of political leadership. Economic and military might are important components of national power, but they are secondary to political leaders who act in accordance with moral norms, and the same holds true in determining the hierarchy of the global order. Providing new insights into the thinking of one of China's leading foreign policy figures, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in China's rise or in international relations.

Towards a Chinese School of International Relations Theory
Towards a Chinese School of International Relations Theory

Author: Peng Lü

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13:

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This study is concerned with an academic phenomenon in contemporary Chinese International Relations (IR): scholars' collective attempts to build up a unique Chinese School of IR theory. This Chinese School movement has two distinct features, being academically ahistorical and future oriented. Because contemporary Chinese IR scholars deny the existence of Chinese IR before 1949, the Chinese School movement has no connection with previous attempts to understand modern international relations. Because there is no Chinese IR theory even after 30 years of serious searching, the image of a Chinese School as a paradigm which is more reliable than the existing Western IR theories is primarily based on a strong belief in the future success of a reliable Chinese IR theory. This study understands the Chinese School movement by exploring the meaning of these two features. It first reconstructs the academic history of Chinese IR from the late 1920s to the late 1970s. By comparing the academic performance of Chinese IR before 1949 and in Mao Ze-dong's era, the consensus that there was no Chinese IR before 1949 is falsified. Then it focuses on contemporary discourse of the Chinese School to find out how consensus has been gradually achieved concerning, respectively, the necessity of, the possibility of, and the way towards a Chinese IR theory. Finally it provides a general understanding of the Chinese School movement by bringing it back to the history of Chinese IR and specifies the political and academic features which heavily influence contemporary Chinese IR in general and the Chinese School movement in particular.

Chinese Scholars and Foreign Policy
Chinese Scholars and Foreign Policy

Author: Taylor & Francis Group

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780367662943

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How does China see the rest of the world? One way to answer this question is to look at the work of China's scholars in the field of International Relations (IR). This leads to a second question - to what extent do Chinese IR scholars influence Beijing's foreign policy and outlook? The contributors to this book seek to answer these key questions, drawing on their own first- and second-hand experiences of involvement in scholarly IR debates in China. Discussing fundamental aspects of China's foreign policy such as China's view of the international structure, soft power projection, maritime disputes, and the principle of non-interference, this book provides insights into the hinterland of Chinese foreign policy-making. It is an invaluable reference for global IR scholars, especially those with a direct interest in understanding and predicting China's actions and reactions on a range of international issues.

Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers
Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers

Author: Yan Xuetong

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-12-22

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0691210225

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A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for the international order Why has China grown increasingly important in the world arena while lagging behind the United States and its allies across certain sectors? Using the lens of classical Chinese political theory, Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers explains China’s expanding influence by presenting a moral-realist theory that attributes the rise and fall of great powers to political leadership. Yan Xuetong shows that the stronger a rising state’s political leadership, the more likely it is to displace a prevailing state in the international system. Yan shows how rising states like China transform the international order by reshaping power distribution and norms, and he considers America’s relative decline in international stature even as its economy, education system, military, political institutions, and technology hold steady. Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers offers a provocative, alternative perspective on the changing dominance of states.