Contesting Hegemonic Order: China in East Asia

Goh, Evelyn

doi:10.1080/09636412.2019.1604989

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“…Concerning the range of action, several scholars affirm that its contestation of the liberal order is not global. They hold that Beijing is trying to dictate a new set of norms and behaviours to its neighbours and to restore its historical hegemony over the Indo-Pacific (Mearsheimer, 2010;Goh, 2019;Mastanduno, 2019). This interpretation is echoed in the strategic documents of the last US presidencies.…”

Section: Who Will Run the World?mentioning

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Tracing the modes of China's revisionism in the Indo-Pacific: a comparison with pre-1941 Shōwa Japan

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2020

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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The People's Republic of China (PRC) has irrefutably reached ‘great power’ status. As a consequence, most studies argue that it has adopted a revisionist posture towards the US-led international order. However, this image tells us little about Beijing's revisionist strategy, particularly whether it is revolutionary or incremental and what this implies in terms of actual policies. The current article posits that the PRC is behaving as an incremental revisionist and aims at tracing its modes. To verify this hypothesis, the analysis focuses on Beijing's policies towards its regional security order. In this light, it diachronically compares post-Cold War China (1989–2019) with the paradigmatic case of a revolutionary revisionist in the Indo-Pacific region: Shōwa Japan in the Interwar period (1926–1941). The findings offer a helpful contribution to the literature, providing the foundation for a more nuanced theoretical definition of incremental revisionism.

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Section: Who Will Run the World?mentioning

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Tracing the modes of China's revisionism in the Indo-Pacific: a comparison with pre-1941 Shōwa Japan

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2020

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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“…China's aims and interests, for instance, are increasingly to limit its reliance on the United States and to limit the ill effects of errant US hegemony on China by building up a network of alternative institutions, while not dismantling the institutions that already exist. 59 As such, the institutions comprising the post-Cold War order will survive, but depending on the depth and persistence of contemporary disorder, they will also likely become increasingly nested in further regional and global institutions, as hedges generated in response disordering US policy. 60…”

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On the concept of international disorder

McKeil

2020

International Relations

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International relations today are widely considered to be experiencing deepening disorder and the topic of international disorder is gaining increased attention. Yet, despite this recent interest in international disorder, in and beyond the academy, and despite the decades-long interest in international order, there is still little agreement on the concept of international disorder, which is often used imprecisely and with an alarmist rather than analytical usage. This is a problem if international disorder is to be understood in theory, towards addressing its concomitant problems and effects in practice. As such, this article identifies and explores two ways international order studies can benefit from a clearer and more precise conception of international disorder. First, it enables a more complete picture of how orderly international orders have been. Second, a greater understanding of the problem of international order is illuminated by a clearer grasp of the relation between order and disorder in world politics. The article advances these arguments in three steps. First, an analytical concept of international disorder is developed and proposed. Second, applying it to the modern history of international order, the extent to which there is a generative relationship between order and disorder in international systems is explored. Third, it specifies the deepening international disorder in international affairs today. It concludes by indicating a research agenda for International Relations and international order studies that takes the role of international disorder more seriously.

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“…As the final stage of the regional transboundary cooperation can hardly be neither definitive nor predetermined by a single framework of modernization, "development" instead of modernization can be more inclusive to embrace different regional models of transboundary water politics. Intraregional cooperation may respond to prominent interregional issues, and regionalized responses to common environmental problems, further to this, incorporate the interruption by conflicts into the interactions to build a dialectic relationship in asymmetric diplomacy between China and the rest (see, for example, Womack, 2006;Goh, 2019). Broadly, stages of regional ecological development can be contoured within the following framework: firstly, total absence of environmentalism due to rigid state sovereignty notion; secondly, asymmetry in environmentalism(s) and subsequent blame games, grounded in non-reciprocal eco-nationalism and negative politicization of environmental affairs; thirdly, recognizing and internalizing regional externalities for regional harmonization and spillovers-that is, reaching the stage of recognizing trans-boundary harms; and finally, the occurrence of multidimensional global and inter-regional spillovers, toward the stage of region-wide harmonization and spillovers with an increase in risk communication positively constructing the de-territorialized approach (Bourdais Park, 2018, 57-61).…”

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Contestation and Collaboration for Water Resources: Comparing the Emerging Regional Water Governance of the Aral Sea, Irtysh River, and Mekong River

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Adibayeva

SAARI

2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This paper enquires into how effectively “regional transboundary water governance” functions in resolving ecological problems associated with shared water resources. It compares three cases in Asia—the Irtysh River, Aral Sea, and Mekong River basin. Previous scholarly work on the hydro-politics of these three cases within social science disciplines, especially political science and international relations, focuses heavily on the dimension of “hegemonic power disparity between state actors” (from the weaker parties’ points of view) and/or the “economic or strategic benefits of development either defending or criticizing” (from the more powerful—often the polluters’—point of view). To contribute to existing research, this paper intends to enlarge the analytical scope and use the formation of regional environmental governance to grasp a broader picture of the complexity and interconnectivity of ecological issues, regional history, and politics. For analysis, we investigated the multilevel gaps in environmental communication at three different levels, exploring both the conflictual and cooperative relationships amongst all actors involved, namely (a) state-to-state relations: hydro-hegemonism due to the power disparity in historical and political contexts; (b) society level: authoritarian environmentalism between politics and citizens; and (c) global inter-connectivity or distance from (or the absence of) the application of international norms. We argue that all three cases, albeit at various degrees, equally exhibit the potential to fill the multidimensional gaps to ensure more functional, effective, and equitable regional hydro-governance.

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Contesting Hegemonic Order: China in East Asia

Cited by 53 publications

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Tracing the modes of China's revisionism in the Indo-Pacific: a comparison with pre-1941 Shōwa Japan

Tracing the modes of China's revisionism in the Indo-Pacific: a comparison with pre-1941 Shōwa Japan

On the concept of international disorder

Contestation and Collaboration for Water Resources: Comparing the Emerging Regional Water Governance of the Aral Sea, Irtysh River, and Mekong River

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