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Hostile Forces shines a light on how China has learned to manage, manipulate, and resist foreign pressure on human rights, and illustrates how support for authoritarian and nationalist policies can actually grow in response to such critiques from powers within the liberal international system.
List of contents
- Part I: The Argument
- Introduction
- A Theory of Responses to Human Rights Pressure
- Part II: The Regime
- Pressure as Propaganda: From Mao to Hu
- Hostile Human Rights: Tibet, Hong Kong, and Beyond
- When does Pressure become Propaganda?
- Part III: The Citizens
- Experimental Activism
- People on the Street
- Pressure in Real Time
- Part IV: The Implications
- Implications for China and Beyond
- Notes
- Appendices
- Bibliography
About the author
Jamie Gruffydd-Jones is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the University of Kent. He received a Doctorate from Princeton University, as well as Masters' and Bachelors' degrees from the University of Oxford. He researches authoritarian politics and nationalism, focussing on China. This research explores how international efforts to change a regime's behaviour influence domestic politics and public opinion, and the causes and consequences of rises in authoritarian and nationalist sentiment. Some of his work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Democratization, and Security Studies Journal. He teaches courses on East Asian politics and international relations.
Summary
Hostile Forces shines a light on how China has learned to manage, manipulate, and resist foreign pressure on human rights, and illustrates how support for authoritarian and nationalist policies can actually grow in response to such critiques from powers within the liberal international system.
Additional text
Hostile Forces is a fascinating book that will appeal to two crowds: China scholars and human rights advocates. Gruffydd-Jones makes a contribution by describing the dilemma of human rights pressure having unintended effects on citizen attitudes.
