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A New Model of Political Reasoning

China and Human Rights

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  • © 2021

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Authors:
  1. Kanzhen Li

    1. China Foreign Affairs University, Beijng, China

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  • Theorizes how political choices are made
  • Offers a vision for China’s human rights idea and policy
  • Explains China’s contributions to the international human rights career and the world development/peace.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Kanzhen Li
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Motivation-Heuristic Complex

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Approaching Political Reasoning

      • Kanzhen Li
      Pages 31-46

    3. Two Tiers of Motivation-Heuristics

      • Kanzhen Li
      Pages 47-77

    4. Two Tiers’ Interaction

      • Kanzhen Li
      Pages 79-90

    5. Reasoning Outcome: Form and Type

      • Kanzhen Li
      Pages 91-95

  4. The Empirical Part

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Empirical Connection: The China Case

      • Kanzhen Li
      Pages 99-111

    3. China and Human Rights: Two Layers of Considerations

      • Kanzhen Li
      Pages 113-152

    4. Pre-1997: National Survival Strategy

      • Kanzhen Li
      Pages 153-178

    5. Post-1997: Towards Balance Between National Survival and Meaningfulness

      • Kanzhen Li
      Pages 179-216

    6. Conclusion

      • Kanzhen Li
      Pages 217-228

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 229-248
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Why politics and international relations “seem” to be driven by power/strategies in some conditions but “seem” to be attached to values/beliefs in other situations? Based on findings in (political) psychology and international relations, the book builds a new political reasoning model: a two-layered motivation-heuristic complex. The model grasps the internal mechanism that drives the co-existent and dynamic relationship between material and ideational considerations in making political choices/phenomena diverse and evolving across situations and periods. Applied to the case of China and human rights, the model helps understand several questions that attract those who are interested in the topic: e.g., the roots and contents of strategic and conceptual factors that continuously influence China’s human rights idea/policies; if, why and how the strategy-ideational relationships in such idea/policies evolve across periods; and the role that China's national security condition and externalpressure play during such evolving relationships.

Authors and Affiliations

  • China Foreign Affairs University, Beijng, China

    Kanzhen Li

About the author

Dr Kanzhen Li  is a post-doctoral fellow at China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing.

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