Role Bargaining Strategies for China's Peaceful Rise

被引:36
作者
He, Kai [1 ,2 ]
Walker, Stephen [3 ]
机构
[1] Griffith Univ, Griffith Asia Inst, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia
[2] Griffith Univ, Ctr Governance & Publ Policy, Nathan, Qld 4111, Australia
[3] Arizona State Univ, Sch Polit & Global Studies, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
关键词
NATIONAL ROLE CONCEPTIONS; REALISM; WAR; DETERRENCE; ANARCHY;
D O I
10.1093/cjip/pov009
中图分类号
D81 [国际关系];
学科分类号
030207 ;
摘要
The bargaining for a new role in world politics presents a rising power with a strategic dilemma, as the new role entails a new power position in the system and a new social status in international society. China's assertiveness in diplomacy after 2008 can be seen as a 'role bargaining' process between China and the outside world, such as China's bargaining for a new role in the global financial system through the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). This article aims to examine how a rising power can bargain for the new role in a peaceful way. Based on rational bargaining theory and on role theory, we suggest four strategies whereby a rising power bargains for a new role: costly signalling, self-restraint, role-diversification, and alter-casting. Through focusing on China's World Trade Organization accession and integration into the global economy after the Cold War, we examine the utilities and limitations of these four role-bargaining strategies for a rising power in the international system. The first two strategies aim to address the information and commitment problems concomitant with rationalism that a rising power faces in negotiating a new power position, and the last two strategies focus on how a rising power can bargain for a new social role by balancing the self's role conception and the role expectations of others.
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页码:371 / 388
页数:18
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