Sanctions with Chinese characteristics : rhetoric and restraint in China's diplomacy / Angela Poh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poh, Angela, author.

Series:

Transforming Asia.

Transforming Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic sanctions--China.

Economic sanctions.

China--Foreign economic relations.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource PDF, 372 pagina's, 3202293 bytes) : illustraties.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

1. The Puzzle of Chinese Sanctions

2. On Sanctions and China

3. When Does Talk Become Costly?

4. Stigmatising Sanctions and China’s Counter-Stigmatisation

5. China and United Nations Security Council Sanctions

6. China’s Unilateral Sanctions: Eight Classic Cases Revisited

7. Demystifying China’s Sanctions Behaviour

8. China’s Sanctions Dilemma

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-70327-5

90-485-5342-3

9781003703273

OCLC:

1225551508