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This book asks what happens to transnational civil society actors as a result of their engagement with China, recognising its status and influence as a rising world power. Taking an interactive and processed-based approach, it aims to explain the multiple, divergent pathways or functional forms of advocacy campaigns in China.
List of contents
Introduction: the superpower's dilemma: to appease, repress, or transform transnational advocacy networks?
1 Mechanisms of persuasion: when and how are advocacy campaigns effective?
2 The power of state preferences: the 'natural cases' of the campaigns for Falun Gong and IPR protection
3 Reading the 'lay of the land': intercessory advocacy and causal process in the HIV/ AIDS treatment and death penalty abolitionist campaigns
4 State- directed advocacy: the 'drift' phenomenon in the 'free Tibet' and global warming campaigns
5 Strategic considerations, tough choices: how state preferences influence campaign forms
Conclusion: state power as reality
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About the author
Stephen Noakes is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and Asian Studies at the University of Auckland
Summary
This book asks what happens to transnational civil society actors as a result of their engagement with China, recognising its status and influence as a rising world power. Taking an interactive and processed-based approach, it aims to explain the multiple, divergent pathways or functional forms of advocacy campaigns in China. -- .
