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Author Horsburgh, Nicola

Title Chinese Politics and International Relations : Innovation and Invention
Edition First edition
Published New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Warwick Studies in Globalisation
Warwick studies in globalisation.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; PART I Innovation in foreign and security policy; 1 Innovation through debate and differentiation: Chinese nuclear doctrine since the reform era; 2 China and globalization: international socialization and Chinese development cooperation; PART II Theoretical innovation: Chinese school of international relations theory; 3 Narrating a discipline: the search for innovation in Chinese international relations
4 'You need to do something that the Westerners cannot understand': the innovation of a Chinese school of IRPART III Innovation in image management; 5 Confucius Institutes as innovative tools of China's cultural diplomacy; 6 Image in transformation: Guangzhou reinventing itself for the Asian Games 2010; PART IV Innovation in resistance; 7 Un-innovative censorship, innovative resistance: the Internet, forbidden words and the humorous homonyms of egao; Index
Summary 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
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 captur
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject National security -- China
World politics -- 21st century.
International relations.
Globalization.
international relations.
globalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations.
Globalization.
International relations.
National security.
World politics.
SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024030
Subject China.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1317961587
9781317961581
1317961595
9781317961598
9781315866734
1315866730