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This book explains China's inconsistent response to intervention at the UN Security Council. It draws upon new data, and concludes with new perspectives on the malleability of China's core interests, insights about the application of status for cooperation, and the implications of the status dilemma for rising powers.
List of contents
- List of Tables
- List of Graphs
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Background
- 1: Historical Overview of China and Intervention at the UN Security Council
- 2: Chinese Discourse on Foreign-Imposed Regime Change
- Theory
- 3: Theory and Empirical Strategy
- Cases
- 4: Status and Intervention in Darfur, Sudan 2004 - 2008
- 5: Status and Intervention in Libya, 2011 - 2012
- 6: Status and Intervention in Syria, 2011 - 2015
- 7: Conclusion
- Appendix: Chinese Ambassadors to the United Nations, 1971-2018
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Courtney J. Fung is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on how rising powers, like China and India, address the norms and provisions for a global security order. She was most recently a research fellow with the East Asia Institute in their Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia, and was previously a post-doctoral fellow with the now Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, based at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. She held pre-doctoral fellowships with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and with the Global Peace Operations Program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University.
Summary
This book explains China's inconsistent response to intervention at the UN Security Council. It draws upon new data, and concludes with new perspectives on the malleability of China's core interests, insights about the application of status for cooperation, and the implications of the status dilemma for rising powers.
Additional text
China's attitudes toward United Nations interventions in situations of civil war and mass atrocities have evolved from skeptical opposition to conditional support. Comparing Beijing's actions in cases involving Sudan, Libya and Syria, Courtney Fung makes a novel contribution to our understanding of Chinese foreign policy. She shows that under certain conditions, Beijing's position on such interventions with a strong undertone of regime change can be influenced by international political opinion and consideration of China's international status. This book should be on the shelves of all scholars interested in China's increasing participation in multilateral diplomacy and its quest for status recognition, which can be a source for international cooperation rather than just competition as usually assumed in the current literature.
