Bound to Challenge ? A Typological Analysis of the Rising China’s Participation in International Regimes
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Lin, Ya-Hsu
Abstract
China’s actively participation in international regimes has recently arisen discussions of its impacts on the existing hegemonic governance. Most of the analyses adopt the vision of “Hegemonic Stability Theory,” considering that the rising power may have only two strategic choices, either to “compliance” or to “deflect” the regime order. However, this predictive dichotomy is too parsimonious, leads to ambiguity about the relations between the hegemonic power and the rising power. For better explanation on how China’s responses to the regimes with different intensity of hegemonic leadership, this thesis discusses the bias of the Hegemonic Stability Theory and therefore suggests an analytical tool which theorized “hegemonic structure in regimes” by developing its two components: “power predominance” and “governance authority”. In this research, I selected three regimes as cases, mainly focusing on “Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),” “International Monetary Fund (IMF)” and “Post-Kyoto negotiations on climate change”. In general, China’s participation and policy attitudes has indeed been influenced by “hegemonic structure in regimes”, especially the declined of U.S. governance authority may easily lead to negative awareness as well as balancing behaviors against U.S. of Chinese government. This thesis also found that China’s strategy has lots of varieties. In the strong structural intensity of NPT, China complied most of the regime norms but to soft balance against U.S in specific issues whereas with middle level of structural intensity in IMF, China performed obvious balancing measures to safeguard its financial power. For the loosen structure in climate change negotiation, China cooperated with non-regime leader-U.S to resist emission cutting pressures and to formulate mutual benefiting climate norms.
Subjects
international regime
NPT
IMF
Climate Change
China
Hegemonic Stability Theory
governance authority
Type
thesis
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