The Chinese Constitution of Central Asia [electronic resource] : Regions and Intertwined Actors in International Relations /
Godehardt, N.author.
China's commitments in Central Asia illustrate how regional foreign policy works and how long-standing principles of Chinese foreign policy might be revised in the near future. China's rise has 'moved' Asia, which is why it seems that what we have traditionally regarded as the geographic and political scope of Asia might actually considerably change in the near future. Nadine Godehardt gives crucial insights into the Chinese expert discourse on Central Asia - analyzing how Chinese experts define Central Asia when they talk and write about policy issues related to China's immediate Western neighbourhood. In this context, she gives an inside perspective on Chinese voices whose meanings are rarely examined in Chinese International Relations studies.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Structure of the book; 2 The Study of Regions in International Relations Theory; Regionalist studies - between cooperation and security; Typologies of regional orders; A plea for post- regionalism in IR; 3 The Political Constitution of Regions; The ''nothingness'' of geographic spaces; The difference between politics and the political; The associative, dissociative and indifferent ways of the political; Conclusion; 4 The Regional Embeddedness of Intertwined Actors
The regional dimension of IRPerformative action, language games and intertwined actors; Intertwined actors making regions: the case of China; Conclusion; 5 China and Central Asia: Twenty Years of a Demanding Relationship; Indifference in the heartland of Eurasia; China''s bond with Central Asia: the role of Xinjiang; Conclusion: China - regional insider or outsider?; 6 The Chinese Constitution of Central Asia; From Shanghai Five to SCO: how Chinese experts write about Central Asia; Current issues in China-Central Asia relations: how Chinese experts speak about Central Asia; Conclusion
7 ConclusionPost-2014 Afghanistan and the future of the Chinese heartland; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
China's commitments in Central Asia illustrate how regional foreign policy works and how long-standing principles of Chinese foreign policy might be revised in the near future. China's rise has 'moved' Asia, which is why it seems that what we have traditionally regarded as the geographic and political scope of Asia might actually considerably change in the near future. Nadine Godehardt gives crucial insights into the Chinese expert discourse on Central Asia - analyzing how Chinese experts define Central Asia when they talk and write about policy issues related to China's immediate Western neighbourhood. In this context, she gives an inside perspective on Chinese voices whose meanings are rarely examined in Chinese International Relations studies.
Ethnology—Asia.
Asia—Politics and government.
Economic development.
International relations.
Diplomacy.
Asian Culture.
Asian Politics.
Development Theory.
International Relations.
Development Studies.
Diplomacy.