-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 …

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 …

The US trade war against China in 2018-2019 can either enhance or diminish the US soft power in China, depending on …