Expectations and adaptation: China's foreign policies in a changing global environment

dc.contributor.authorDuggan, Niall
dc.contributor.authorGottwald, Jörn-Carsten
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-07T09:32:44Z
dc.date.available2017-02-07T09:32:44Z
dc.date.issued2011-04
dc.date.updated2017-02-07T09:23:36Z
dc.description.abstractThe financial and economic crisis of 2008 has highlighted the changing landscape of international relations and the enormous pressure on the People's Republic of China to redefine its international position. Based on two case studies, China's Africa policy and its response to the global financial and economic crisis, we argue that China's foreign policies are currently characterized by an adaptation of its historical role conception as a "leading developing country" to that of a "responsible caretaker" in international, especially economic affairs. In its own perceptions - developed in constant exchange with external perceptions of China - as well as in its actions, the PRC finds itself drawn faster and further into a complex web of global governance than anticipated by its policy elites. Acknowledging the benefits of a stronger involvement, the PRC steps up its engagement with regional, multilateral and global orders and is actively pursuing their recalibration. Contradictions within the Chinese leadership, conflicting themes in public discourse and incoherent actions highlight the difficulties even for a technocratic one-party elite with a limited - albeit real and important - need to assure domestic support and legitimacy to define the global role of an "emerging great power".en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationDuggan, N. and Gottwald, J.-C. (2011) 'Expectations and adaptation: China's foreign policies in a changing global environment', International Journal of China Studies, 2(1), pp. 1-26.en
dc.identifier.endpage26en
dc.identifier.issn2180-3250
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Journal of China Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3565
dc.identifier.volume2en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInstitute of China Studies, University of Malaya.en
dc.relation.urihttp://search.proquest.com/docview/1271623979?pq-origsite=gscholar
dc.rights© 2011, Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya.en
dc.subjectChinaen
dc.subjectForeign policyen
dc.subjectChina and Africaen
dc.subjectChina and G20en
dc.subjectGlobal financial crisisen
dc.titleExpectations and adaptation: China's foreign policies in a changing global environmenten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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