1st Edition
Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics Rhetoric and Restraint in China's Diplomacy
By Angela Poh
Copyright 2021
372 Pages
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Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
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The view that China has become increasingly assertive under President Xi Jinping is now a common trope in academic and media discourse. However, until the end of Xi Jinping's first term in March 2018, China had been relatively restrained in its use of coercive economic measures. This is puzzling given the conventional belief among scholars and practitioners that sanctions are a middle ground... Read more
List of Tables and Figures, Acknowledgments, List of Abbreviations, Chapter 1. The Puzzle of Chinese Sanctions, Chapter 2. On Sanctions and China, Chapter 3. When Does Talk Become Costly? International Audience Costs and China's Sanctions Behaviour, Chapter 4. Stigmatising Sanctions and China's Counter-Stigmatisation, Chapter 5. China and United Nations Security Council Sanctions, Chapter 6. China's Unilateral Sanctions: Eight Classic Cases Revisited, Chapter 7. Demystifying China's Sanctions Behaviour, Chapter 8. China's Sanctions Dilemma, Appendices, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Angela Poh is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She holds a PhD in International Relations. Her research interests include Chinese foreign policy, the intersection of history and international relations, sanctions, and rhetoric in international politics. Her works have appeared in journals such as Asian Security, The Washington Quarterly, and Asia Policy.
As anxiety over China's presumed assertiveness continues to surge around the world, Poh's book thus offers a compelling case that policymakers should explicitly call out Beijing's hypocrisy when it deploys sanctions. This innovative policy implication, augmented by the book's conceptual and methodological contributions, render this work a timely and important contribution to our understanding of China's economic statecraft.- James Reilly, The China Quarterly, Volume 247, September 2021,
[...] Poh's excellent study shows us that (for the most part) the PRC has up to this point been held back by fetters of its own making.,- Todd H. Hall, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 27, Iss. 02
