Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics

Rhetoric and Restraint in China's Diplomacy
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6372-235-3
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Transforming Asia

The view that China has become increasingly assertive under President Xi Jinping is now a common trope in academic and media discourse. However, until the end of Xi Jinping’s first term in March 2018, China had been relatively restrained in its use of coercive economic measures. This is puzzling given the conventional belief among scholars and practitioners that sanctions are a middle ground between diplomatic and military/paramilitary action.

Using a wide range of methods and data — including in-depth interviews with 76 current and former politicians, policy-makers, diplomats, and commercial actors across 12 countries and 16 cities — Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics: Rhetoric and Restraint in China’s Diplomacy examines the ways in which China had employed economic sanctions to further its political objectives, and the factors explaining China’s behaviour. This book provides a systematic investigation into the ways in which Chinese decisionmakers approached sanctions both at the United Nations Security Council and unilaterally, and shows how China’s longstanding sanctions rhetoric has had a constraining effect on its behaviour, resulting in its inability to employ sanctions in complete alignment with its immediate interests.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poh, Angela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. The Puzzle of Chinese Sanctions

Chapter 2. On Sanctions and China

Chapter 3. When Does Talk Become Costly? International Audience Costs and China's Sanctions Behaviour

Chapter 4. Stigmatising Sanctions and China's Counter-Stigmatisation

Chapter 5. China and United Nations Security Council Sanctions

Chapter 6. China's Unilateral Sanctions: Eight Classic Cases Revisited

Chapter 7. Demystifying China's Sanctions Behaviour

Chapter 8. China's Sanctions Dilemma

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Poh, Angela
Angela Poh is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She holds a PhD in International Relations. Her research interests include Chinese foreign policy, the intersection of history and international relations, sanctions, and rhetoric in international politics. Her works have appeared in journals such as Asian Security, The Washington Quarterly, and Asia Policy.