Overview
- Unique in studying China's challenge to international orders within international institutions
- Combines empirical analysis with conceptual discussion
- Sheds light on China's role in international order
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Conceptual Tools
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Re-Interpreting Sovereignty by Contesting Norms: China and the United Nations
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Evolution or Revolution in International Aid Practices? China and International Development
Keywords
- China and liberal norms
- China and international order
- China as a normative power
- socialised to liberal norms
- re-interpretation of liberal norms
- China and sovereignty
- China and international intervention
- China and international aid
- China and international development
- China and western liberal practices
- China and western attitudes
- lilberal-pluralist attitudes
- China's conceptual power
- concepts of international order
- normative change
- China and the United Nations
- China and the Responsibility to Protect
- China and liberal development
- China's global power
- China and international institutions
About this book
Is China challenging liberal norms or being socialised to them? This book argues that China is incrementally pushing for re-interpretation of liberal norms, but, the result is that rather than being illiberal, this reinterpretation produces norms that are differently liberal and more akin to the liberal pluralism of the 1990s. In developing this argument, the author presents a novel way to understand and assess these incremental changes, and the causes of them. The book’s empirical chapters explore China’s views on norms of sovereignty and intervention, and aid and development, contrasting them against the current western liberal practices, but making the case that they are congruent with the attitudes understood as being broadly liberal-pluralist. This book will appeal to students seeking to understand how rising states may affect the current institutions of international order, and make assessments of how fast that order may change. It will also appeal to scholars working on Chinaand institutions by aiding the development of new lines of enquiry.Â
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Catherine Jones is Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Her work focuses on the engagement of East Asian states with institutions contributing to global governance. Her research has been published in The Pacific Review, International Politics, and Pacific Focus, as well as in various book chapters. This project was initially funded through by the Leverhulme Trust, through a major research project – the Liberal Way of War – at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: China's Challenge to Liberal Norms
Book Subtitle: The Durability of International Order
Authors: Catherine Jones
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-42761-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-42760-1Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-68233-1Published: 14 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-42761-8Published: 03 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Politics, Globalization, Development and Social Change