ABSTRACT
This collection examines changes in China’s international role over the past century. Tracing the links between domestic and external expectations in the PRC’s role conception and preferred engagement patterns in world politics, the work provides a systematic account of changes in China’s role and the mechanisms of role taking. Individual chapters address the impact of China’s history and identity on its bilateral role taking patterns with the United States, Japan, Africa, the Europe Union, and Socialist States as well as China’s role in international institutions, the G-20, and East Asia’s 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 PRC’s role. The volume provides an analytically coherent framework evaluating whether cooperation or conflict in China’s 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 China’s rise and integration into the international society and provides sound conclusions about the prospects for a transition of China’s purpose in world politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|94 pages
Theoretical concepts and China's roles
chapter 1|19 pages
Role theory and the study of Chinese foreign policy
chapter 2|16 pages
Historical narrative, remembrance, and the ordering of the world
part II|74 pages
China's International Roles
chapter 8|18 pages
China's roles in international institutions
chapter 9|24 pages
Finding a new role in the East Asian financial order
part III|91 pages
China's International Roles