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Chinese Assertiveness in the South China Sea
This book offers an assessment of China’s assertive foreign policy behavior with a special focus on Chinese policies in the South China Sea (SCS). By providing a detailed account of the events in the SCS and by analyzing power dynamics in the region, it identifies the driving forces behind China’s assertive foreign policy. Considering China’s power on a domestic as well as an international level, it examines a number of different sources of hard and soft power, including military, economics, geopolitics, and domestic legitimacy. The author demonstrates that Chinese assertiveness in the SCS can be explained not only by increases in China’s power, but also by effective reactions to other actors’ foreign policy changes. The book will appeal to scholars in international relations, especially those interested in a better understanding of South China Sea developments, China’s political power and foreign policy, and East Asian international affairs.
Chinese views of the world at the time of the Russia-Ukraine war. Evidence from a March 2022 public opinion survey
Tato publikace je výsledkem rozsáhlého online průzkumu veřejného mínění v pevninské Číně, který se uskutečnil mezi 9. a 23. březnem 2022, s výzkumným vzorkem (N=3039) reprezentujícím čínskou populaci s ohledem na pohlaví, věk (18- 65 let) a region země. Čínští respondenti mají velmi pozitivní názory na Rusko a velmi negativní názory na USA. Ve skutečnosti z 25 zemí, na které byli respondenti dotazováni, bylo Rusko nejpozitivněji vnímanou zemí, zatímco USA byly nejvíce negativně vnímáno. Protože náš průzkum byl shromážděn v době vrcholící pozornosti čínské veřejnosti a médií vůči rusko-ukrajinské válce (a před eskalací Covid-...
Shifting Power in Asia-Pacific?
This book investigates whether a power shift has taken place in the Asia-Pacific region since the end of the Cold War. By systematically examining the development of power dynamics in Asia-Pacific, it challenges the notion that a wealthier and militarily more powerful China is automatically turning the regional tides in its favour. With a special emphasis on Sino-US competition, the book explores the alleged linkage between the regional distribution of relevant material and immaterial capabilities, national power and the much-cited regional power shift. The book presents a novel concept for measuring power in international relations by outlining a composite index on aggregated power (CIAP) that includes 55 variables for 44 regional countries and covers a period of twenty years. Moreover, it develops a middle power theory that outlines the significance of middle powers in times of major power shifts. By addressing political, military and economic cooperation via a structured-focused comparison and by applying a comparative-historical analysis, the book analyses in depth the bilateral relations of six regional middle powers to Washington and Beijing.
Czech public opinion on China in the age of COVID-19
This report is a result of a wide-scale study of public opinion on China in 13 European countries, conducted in September-October 2020, on the research sample representative with respect to gender, age from 18 to 70, level of education, country region, and settlement density. Here, we focus on the Czech portion of the polling, building on the previously published report comparing the results across the 13 countries. Overall, the Czech respondents has a predominantly negative view of China. A significant portion of the Czech population declared a change of its view on China in the last three years. However, only 11 % changed its view to more positive, while 41% respondents saw their views of China worsened. As such, the Czech Republic is now one the most China-negative countries in Europe.
Handbook on Climate Change and Environmental Governance in China
This timely Handbook explores climate challenges and environmental governance in China. Bringing together established scholars and emerging research stars, it systematically examines the evolution of Chinese climate policies and institutions and the challenges, successes, failures and dilemmas that have arisen from this.
Narratives in East Asia and Beyond
This volume contributes to the discussion of narratives as a research method by bringing together studies that illuminate the connection between narratives and social and political practices. The scholars from diverse fields and backgrounds offer their perspectives on the theoretical and empirical approaches to using narratives as research method.
One Belt, One Road, One Story?
This book explores the emerging EU-China relationship with a focus on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative. It takes a narrative approach to understanding the EU-China relationship as a means to highlight how scholars in the EU and China interpret the narrativization of EU-China bilateral relations and to how this bilateral relationship is refracted through relations with third parties. The volume brings together scholars from China and Europe in the fields of Chinese foreign policy, EU studies, and strategic communication. The empirical focus cuts across policy, publics and media, and across history, political economy and diplomacy. The Belt and Road Initiative, alongside the other policy areas addressed in the chapters, offers ways for people in Europe and China to get to know one another in new ways, and for the EU and its member states and the Chinese state to forge new partnerships.
Challenges to China's Economic Statecraft
Fueled by its surging economic strength, China has been increasingly utilizing economic tools such as trade, foreign aid, foreign direct investment, and sanctions to pursue strategic and security interests on the world stage. This approach, known as economic statecraft, has thus far received mixed policy results and ambivalent reactions from the international community. This book presents a collection of global assessment of China's economic statecraft. The contributors to this volume answer three key questions: What are the challenges faced by China’s economic statecraft? Why is China sometimes able to achieve its foreign policy objectives via economic statecraft and sometimes not? How do foreign countries, particularly the targets of China’s economic statecraft, respond to China's strategies? This comprehensive study examines economic statecraft in the context of more than a dozen nations and international organizations across four continents, thus providing a truly global perspective.
Contemporary China
This textbook introduces the complexity and diversity of China's society, politics, economics, and international affairs. It will be particularly useful for undergraduate level courses in Asian Studies and courses on the history, politics, and international affairs of China and Chinese Studies.
