Chinese Paradiplomacy At The Peripheries

Author : Yao Song,Tianyang Liu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000992205

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Chinese Paradiplomacy at the Peripheries by Yao Song,Tianyang Liu Pdf

This book explores how Chinese border provinces have become actors in international relations. Through an analysis of the international actorness – the inherent characteristics of a subnational entity as an international player – of Yunnan and two other geographically peripheral provinces, Guangdong and Guangxi, the domestic, economic, and legislative circumstances that motivated these provinces to conduct transboundary engagements are determined. The book is based on an extensive field study including interviews with those involved in the implementation of Yunnan’s foreign agenda, representatives from province-owned enterprises, universities and think tanks, and officials and experts from the countries neighboring Yunnan. Acknowledging the role of external geopolitics, the authors analyze the efforts of these border provinces to incentivize neighboring countries to cooperate with them on areas of trade, investment, and nontraditional security. Yao Song and Tianyang Liu also observe how border provinces have leveraged their paradiplomatic strengths to affect China’s foreign relations with neighboring countries. This volume will appeal to researchers, academics, and postgraduates in political science, international relations, and diplomacy as well as geography, Southeast Asian politics, political economy, Chinese periphery diplomacy, and nonfederal paradiplomacy.

Author : Martin Kossa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003838265

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The Arctic in China’s National Strategy by Martin Kossa Pdf

This book locates the Arctic within the context of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) national strategy of the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation. Drawing on a range of sources published in Chinese and English, the author analyses Beijing’s Arctic scientific activities and technological capabilities, including the research infrastructure, long-term goals, and the significance for China’s understanding of the region, its Arctic identity, and international perceptions. Examining the region from the perspective of the Comprehensive National Security Outlook developed during the Xi Jinping era, the book focuses on military, economic, technological, and political components and considers the PRC’s official and academic discourses and the views of the region within bilateral relations with Arctic states, outlining a science, security, and governance nexus in China’s Arctic engagement. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of Arctic geopolitics, Chinese studies, security studies, and foreign policy analysis. It will also appeal to policymakers and defence analysts in Arctic states and other regional stakeholders.

Author : Dominik Mierzejewski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000374452

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China's Provinces and the Belt and Road Initiative by Dominik Mierzejewski Pdf

This book discusses the Belt and Road Initiative at the provincial level in China. It analyses the evolution of the role of local governments in Chinese foreign policy since the opening of China’s economy in 1978, showing how the provinces initially competed with each other, and how the central government was forced to react, developing more centralised policies. Unlike other books on the Belt and Road Initiative, which focus on the international aspects of the initiative, this book demonstrates the importance of the Belt and Road in reinforcing China’s unitary status and for managing and coordinating development at the local level as well as centre-province relations and province to province relations inside China.

Author : Tim Summers
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857094452

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Yunnan-A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia by Tim Summers Pdf

The Chinese Government’s five-year strategy for social and economic development to 2015 includes the aim of making the southwestern province of Yunnan a bridgehead for ‘opening the country’ to southeast Asia and south Asia. Yunnan - A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia traces the dynamic process which has led to this policy goal, a process through which Yunnan is being repositioned from a southwestern periphery of the People’s Republic of China to a ‘bridgehead’ between China and its regional neighbours. It shows how this has been expressed in ideas and policy frameworks, involvement in regional institutions, infrastructure development, and changing trade and investment flows, from the 1980s to the present. Detailing the wider context of the changes in China's global interactions, especially in Asia, the book uses Yunnan's case to demonstrate the extent of provincial agency in global interactions in reform-era China, and provides new insights into both China’s relationships with its Asian neighbours and the increasingly important economic engagement between developing countries. Offers a new perspective on Yunnan Contains historical depth: understanding the background and developments over time means that this ‘China watching’ book will not date quickly Takes a provincial view of China’s international relations

Author : Uddipana Goswami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000638615

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Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries by Uddipana Goswami Pdf

This book forwards Assam (and Northeast India) as a specific location for studying operations of gendered power in multi-ethnic, conflict-habituated geopolitical peripheries globally. In the shifting and relational margins of such peripheral societies, power and agency are constantly negotiated and in flux. Notions of masculinity are redefined in an interlaced environment of militarization, hyper-masculinization, and gendered violence. These interconnections inform victimhood and agency among the most vulnerable marginalized constituencies – namely, women and migrants. By centering the marginalized in its inquiry, the book analyzes obstacles to achieving positive, organic peace based on cooperation and mutual healing. The tools used to perpetuate an endless cycle of violence that makes conflict a habit – a way of life – are identified in order to enable resistance against them from within the margins. Such resistance must be based on reflexivity and strategic, cautious radicalism. This involves critically interrogating the inherent connections between engendered pasts and feminist futures, local changes and global contexts, as well as between small, incremental changes and big shifts impacting entire societies, nations, and global orders. This book will be of much interest to students of ethnic conflict, conflict resolution, feminist peace, and Asian/South Asian politics.

Author : Czeslaw Tubilewicz,Natalie Omond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000388671

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The United States’ Subnational Relations with Divided China by Czeslaw Tubilewicz,Natalie Omond Pdf

This book examines US subnational engagement in foreign relations, or paradiplomacy, with China and Taiwan from 1949 to 2020. As an alternative diplomatic history of the United States’ relations with divided China, it offers an in-depth chronological and thematic discussion of state and local communities’ responses to the China-Taiwan sovereignty conflict and their impact on US diplomacy. The book explains why paradiplomacy matters not only in the ‘low politics’ of economic and cultural cooperation, but also in the ‘high politics’ of diplomatic recognition. Presenting case studies of US states and cities developing policies towards divided China that paralleled, clashed or aligned with those pursued by federal agencies, it also identifies Chinese and Taiwanese objectives and strategies deployed when competing for US subnational ties. Conceptually, the book builds upon Constructivism, redefining paradiplomacy as an institutional fact, reflective of subnational identities and interests, rather than as a subnational pursuit of foreign markets, driven by objective economic forces. Featuring new empirical evidence and a novel conceptual framework for paradiplomacy, The United States’ Subnational Relations with Divided China will be a useful resource for students and scholars of US foreign policy, the politics of China and Taiwan, paradiplomacy and international relations.

Author : Małgorzata Pietrasiak,Grzegorz Bywalec (ekonomia),Tomasz Kamiński (politologia),Dominik Mierzejewski,Michał Słowikowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8380888030

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Paradiplomacy in Asia by Małgorzata Pietrasiak,Grzegorz Bywalec (ekonomia),Tomasz Kamiński (politologia),Dominik Mierzejewski,Michał Słowikowski Pdf

Author : Mathieu Landriault,Jean-François Payette,Stéphane Roussel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000397659

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Mapping Arctic Paradiplomacy by Mathieu Landriault,Jean-François Payette,Stéphane Roussel Pdf

This book analyses the possibilities and limitations that sub-national actors face when developing diplomatic activities in the Arctic region. Sub-national actors, such as civil society groups and sub-national governments or administrations, have been active in international relations for decades. They face specific political and economic limitations on the international scene as non-sovereign entities. This book investigates how these actors have developed their international presence in the Arctic region. It analyzes the diplomatic activities of states, provinces, regional administrations, and multilateral forums made of sub-national governments to offer comparative insights on the strategies, interests, and activities of sub-national governments. Alaska, Scotland, Quebec, Yakutsk, and Indigenous People’s organizations are among the examples covered in this book that have forged bilateral and multilateral relations to promote and defend their interests and values. Moreover, sovereign states are often using these sub-national actors to further their own interests, as exemplified in this book in how Russia and China harnessed the potential of sub-national governments to align with their Arctic policies. The volume will be useful to academics and graduate students of Arctic politics, international relations, comparative politics, comparative federalism, foreign policy, and global governance.

Author : Christopher J. Kukucha
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774858564

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The Provinces and Canadian Foreign Trade Policy by Christopher J. Kukucha Pdf

During the past thirty years, international trade agreements have focused increasingly on areas of provincial jurisdiction. In The Provinces and Canadian Foreign Trade Policy, Kukucha argues that Canadian provinces have maintained a level of autonomy in response to these developments, sometimes even influencing Canada's global trade relations and the evolution of international norms and standards. The first comprehensive review of provincial foreign trade policy in Canada, the book highlights the convergence of debates related to federalism, Canadian foreign policy, and the global political economy as they are played out in the negotiation and implementation of international trade agreements. It will be of interest to students and practitioners of political science, public policy, and economics.

Author : Shibashis Chatterjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199095490

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India’s Spatial Imaginations of South Asia by Shibashis Chatterjee Pdf

Since India attained independence, its foreign policy discourse has imagined its South Asian neighbourhood through the politics of realism. This imagination explicates state interest in South Asia by establishing it as a space of sovereign territoriality. Even today, India’s foreign and security policies are primarily shaped by geopolitical centrism, and remain unaffected by economic prosperity and community concerns. As a part of the Oxford International Relations in South Asia series, this volume examines alternative conceptions of South Asian space in terms of geo-economics and community, and justifies why they have been unable to replace its dominant understanding, irrespective of the political regime. This volume probes reasons behind the relevance of differentiated cartography of territorial nationalism in our shared understanding of space, politics, society, and the community.

Author : Marc Lanteigne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : China
ISBN : 0415365848

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China and International Institutions by Marc Lanteigne Pdf

This book examines a new approach to Chinese foreign policy development in the post-Cold War international order.

Author : Anoushiravan Ehteshami,Niv Horesh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351734981

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China's Presence in the Middle East by Anoushiravan Ehteshami,Niv Horesh Pdf

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) vision, heralded as an attempt to revive the pre-modern Silk Route, is intended to strengthen West Asia’s economic links with China through ambitious infrastructural projects. Central to this are fast-track rail links, funded by the newly-established Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB), which has its headquarters in Beijing. This book explores the implications of OBOR and the AIIB for the Middle East/West Asia, and addresses a number of key strategic questions arising from China’s new initiatives. These include: how far are the strategic imperatives underpinning China’s policies connected to the political dynamics of Xinjiang and the spread of radical Islam in Central Asia? How are Middle Eastern stakeholders’ views of China affected by the new initiatives? How does China’s increasing involvement in the Middle East/West Asia affect other regional powers with ambitions in the region, notably Russia? The book also considers the impact of China’s increasing presence on individual countries, including Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Author : Rodrigo Tavares
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190462147

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Paradiplomacy by Rodrigo Tavares Pdf

Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments. Yet as Rodrigo Tavares demonstrates, the vast majority of leading sub-states and cities are currently practicing foreign affairs, both bilaterally and multilaterally. Subnational governments in Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa are changing traditional notions of sovereignty, diplomacy, and foreign policy as they carry out diplomatic endeavors and establish transnational networks around areas such as education, healthcare, climate change, waste management, or transportation. In fact, subnational activity and activism in the international arena is growing at a rate that far exceeds that carried out by the traditional representatives of sovereign states. Paradiplomacy is the definitive first practitioner's guide to foreign policy at the subnational level. In this seminal work, Tavares draws from a unique pool of best practices and case studies from all over the world to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of the conceptual, juridical, operational, organizational, governmental and diplomatic parameters of paradiplomacy.

Author : Tomasz Kamiński (politologia),Adriana Skorupska,Justyna Szczudlik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8366091333

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The Subnational Dimensionof EU-China Relations by Tomasz Kamiński (politologia),Adriana Skorupska,Justyna Szczudlik Pdf

The report presents the specificity of relations with China at the subnational level of the six largest EU countries in terms of population: Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Italy, and the UK. It also analyses selected case studies of European regions cooperating with Chinese partners. The text also includes references to relations between the European Union and China. The conclusions are based on the analysis of the selected countries and cannot always be generalised to the entire European Union.

Author : Michael Keating
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192558701

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The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Politics by Michael Keating Pdf

The Handbook of Scottish Politics provides a detailed overview of politics in Scotland, looking at areas such as elections and electoral behaviour, public policy, political parties, and Scotland's relationship with the EU and the wider world. The contributors to this volume are some of the leading experts on politics in Scotland.