This paper uses the case of Sino–Southeast Asian relations to gain insights on China’s ability to muster support for … of China’s rise in world affairs. …

-positivist analyses, contributions by area specialists and China watchers, and articles by Chinese IR scholars. These strands, however …) (Waever/Tickner 2009: 3) and “the periphery’s revolt against [“Western”] IR” paradigms (ibid.), it is necessary to view China … metatheoretical debate about the possibility of non-“Western” IR. It argues that even though the IR debates in China are heavily …

China’s foreign policy choices. It argues that ideas about what China’s role as an actor in the increasingly globalized … international system should be, and about world order in general, deeply impact on China’s foreign policymaking process. Taking the … North Korean issue as a case study, this paper postulates that China is cur-rently engaged in a search for a ‘new’ identity …

With China’s emergence as a global economic and political power, it is commonly assumed that its leadership’s influence … in international politics has increased considerably. However, systematic studies of China’s impact on the foreign policy … power. This paper seeks to contribute to the literature on China’s global political rise by taking a broader perspective …

The proliferation of social organizations in China has engendered a lively debate about how to conceptualize these …

Against the backdrop of China’s increasingly influential role in global finance and the debate on the emergence of a … “Beijing Consensus,” this paper examines whether the ideology that China promotes in the Bretton Woods institutions is … paper develops a theoretical framework for theanalysis of international policy framing. Following an overview of China …

The contemporary politics of China reflect an ongoing effort by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to claim the … right to rule in light of the consequences of economic development, international pressures, and historical change. China … China’s elite discourse during the reform period and particularly during the last decade, this paper aims to elaborate on …

scientific analyses of China’s international environment. This requires not only the handling of IR theories and methods of … of China’s leading IR scholars on the current state and the future of the international system, this paper conducts a … discourse analysis of China’s core IR journals. In order to illustrate the continuity and (gradual) changes in China …