China in the UN Security Council decision-making on Iraq
Subtitle: conflicting understandings, competing preferences, 1990-2002
By: Suzanne Xiao Yang
Series: The new international relations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415617697; 9780203113615
Subjects: United Nations. Security Council; International relations; Decision making; Diplomatic history; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Resolutions; Foreign relations; United Nations
Other titles: China in the United Nations Security Council decision-making on Iraq
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The reasons for action: strategic preferences in explaining foreign policy; title: China's strategic preferences in the UN Security Council, 1971-the mid 1980s; title: China's decisions in the Security Council over the use of force (1990-2002); title: State sovereignty vs. humanitarian intervention: China's position over the establishment of no-fly zones (1991-1992); title: China and the UN sanctions regime against Iraq (1991-2002); title: Weapons inspections: China, the UN and the disarming of Iraq (1991-2002); title: Conclusions.