Sabine Mokry

Chinese Scholars and Think Tanks' Constructions of China's National Interest (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Offering a new way of assessing and explaining Chinese foreign policy experts' influence, understanding the environment in which they operate, and suggestions on how to analyse official foreign policy statements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040397244
• Artikelnr.: 74349319

Autorenporträt

Sabine Mokry is a researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. In addition, she is an associate at the German Institute for Global and Areas Studies (GIGA). Her work examines how domestic factors shape China's foreign and security policy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Argument in brief
Contributions
Data & methods
Plan of the book
2. Theory and Empirical Strategy
Experts' ideas and China's national interest
Debates about China's national interest
Understanding China's national interest as constructed
Experts' ideas and the construction of China's national interest
The intervening role of domestic structures
Experts' proximity to the state
The state's signaled demand for expertise
Examining experts' influence
Strategies for addressing challenges
Empirical implementation
Conclusions
3. Foreign Policy-Making in China and Chinese Experts
Foreign policy-making in China
The outer circle of foreign policy-making in China
Think Tanks
Scholars
The mechanisms of Chinese experts' influence
Think Tanks
Scholars
Xi Jinping's tightened control
Conclusions
4. Experts' Influence on the Construction of China's National Interest
Overarching changes in the construction of China's national interest
Shifts in policy substance
Quantitative analysis of scholars' and think tanks' influence
Influenced policy shifts: an overview
Conclusions
5. Distant Experts' Influence
Distant think tanks' influence on the construction of China's national
interest
Distant think tanks' characteristics
High demand for expertise signaled by the state
How distant analysts shaped policy shifts
Distant scholars' influence on the construction of China's national
interest
Distant scholars' characteristics
High demand for expertise signaled by the state
How distant scholars shaped policy shifts
Conclusions
6. Close Experts' Influence
Shifts in the demand for expertise signaled by the state
Close think tanks' influence on the construction of China's national
interest
Close think tanks' characteristics
How close analysts shaped policy shifts
Close scholars' influence on the construction of China's national interest
Close scholars' characteristics
How close scholars shaped policy shifts
7. Conclusions
Experts' influence on the construction of China's national interest
Scholarly implications
Implications for understanding China's foreign policy
Implications for researching experts and policy
Limitations and further research
Policy implications