Rosemary Foot
Biographic Data
| ID | 744073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemary Foot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemary |
| FAMILY NAME | Foot |
| SIGNATURE | FOOT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3538-7626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 88 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The once and future world order
Power shifts in international organisations
The People's Republic of China is central to current debates about power shifts in international organisations, but a systematic and comprehensive assessment of China‐related shifts has been missing. As Special Issue introduction, this article contributes to addressing this gap and examines whether, how and to what extent China‐related power shifts have unfolded at the United Nations (UN) over the last two decades or so. We define power shifts as…
Reining in a liberal UN
Has the deepening of China's involvement with the United Nations (UN) actually led to significant China‐related shifts in power at the UN over the last three decades? This article explores this question in relation to the UN's move in the post Cold War era into a period of greater normative ambition that made the protection of the individual central to its efforts to maintain international peace and security. Conceptually, the article utilizes an…
Institutional Design and Rhetorical Spaces
This article underlines the need to pay attention to institutional design in the analysis of China's stated aim of leading the reform of global governance.The argument made here is that institutional choice and institutional design matter in relation to the larger question of how Chinese objectives are translated into its desired outcomes.The process of translation is hindered or enabled not solely by the embeddedness of normative ideas but also …
R2P Sidelined
There has been a lack of recourse to the language of ‘The Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) in respect of reports that the Chinese government is perpetrating mass atrocity crimes against the Muslim minorities that reside in Xinjiang. What does this suggest about the overall normative power of R2P, and is the neglect of R2P reflective of a more general weakening in provisions designed to deal with wide-scale human rights abuses
China’s world view in the Xi Jinping Era
A ‘world view’ perspective is deployed to show President Xi Jinping’s dominance of China’s policy-making environment and the ideas that he and his leadership group have tried to promote. We use this framework to explain China’s relations with three major countries that are crucial to manage successfully in order for China to consolidate its global and regional ambitions – Japan, Russia and the United States. The article shows how the degree of al…
China, the un, and Human Protection
China’s rise and US hegemony
China’s and India’s search for international status through the UN system
As rising powers, China and India both perceive the United Nations as a primary venue for status seeking, and both express pride in narrating the ways in which they have supported the UN Charter and the maintenance of international peace and security. Given the competitive dynamic between these two countries, we might expect this competition to extend to their activities in global governance. In this article we develop and apply the concepts of ‘…
Remembering the past to secure the present
In the century since the signature of the Treaty of Versailles, China's international status and material condition have been fundamentally transformed. The People's Republic has become powerful in ways that probably would have astonished the leaders of the early Republic of China, first established in 1911. These changes do not mean, however, that there are not potent legacies from China's nineteenth-century and Versailles-era experiences. In pa…
The International Relations of East Asia
East Asia is a region of signal importance for global order because of its economic dynamism and growing heft, China's challenge to the United States as incumbent regional and global hegemon, and other conflict hotspots like the Korean peninsula. This requires academic analysis that both appreciates the subtleties inherent to this region and can relate them to the wider systemic context. Many analysts have begun to allude to the challenging chara…
Power transitions and great power management
What kind of challenge did a rising Japan in the 1970s and 1980s pose to the United States, and how does that differ from the challenge that China has posed to US primacy in East Asia since the early 2000s? This article compares and contrasts US responses to these two shifts in relative power, in the process aiming to elucidate how changes that portend a power transition are understood and dealt with and how great powers manage the security order…
Migration
The International Relations of Asia
Economic-Security Linkages in Asia
International Relations Theory and the “Rise of Asia”
Strategic Asian Triangles
Territorial and Maritime Boundary Disputes in Asia
Territorial disputes involve a state’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity-its core interests. Historically, they have been the most common issue over which states collide and go to war. Since 1945, Asia has been more prone to conflict over territory and maritime boundaries than other regions in the world. Asia accounts for the greatest number of disputes over territory that have become militarized and that have escalated into intersta…
Principal Developments and Future Directions in Asia’s Trade
Energy Security in Asia
Japan’s Foreign Economic Policies
Central Asia’s Inside-Out Foreign Economic Relations
The Evolution of Foreign Direct Investment in Asia
This chapter reviews the foreign direct investment (FDI) patterns of Japan, China, India, and South Korea, as well as smaller and emerging players stretching from Southeast Asia to Central Asia. By 2012 Asia accounted for 27% of FDI inflows and 17% of FDI outflows worldwide. Intraregional FDI accounts for about 40% of total FDI in Asia. Although there is a strong economic rationale for intraregional investment flows, Asia has a state-mediated inv…
The Domestic Context of Chinese Foreign Security Policies
Contesting International Society in East Asia
Bringing together some of the most innovative scholars in both the English School of international relations and East Asian studies, this volume investigates whether or not significant and distinct international social structures exist at the regional level represented by 'East Asia', and what this can tell us about international society both regionally and globally. The book's main finding is that the regional dispute over how its states and peo…
The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia
This handbook examines the theory and practice of international relations in Asia. Building on an investigation of how various theoretical approaches to international relations can elucidate Asia's empirical realities, authors examine the foreign relations and policies of major countries or sets of countries
Chinese strategies in a US-hegemonic global order
China's economic, political and military influence has been increasing at a time when the United States, as sole superpower, dominates the international order. This article outlines Chinese elite perspectives on the current global order and shows not only how these perceptions have affected China's policies towards the United States, but also how they have influenced China's regional and global policies more broadly. It argues that variants of re…
Chinese Power and the Idea of a Responsible State
The International Relations of East Asia
East Asia is a region of signal importance for global order because of its economic dynamism and growing heft, China's challenge to the United States as incumbent regional and global hegemon, and other conflict hotspots like the Korean peninsula. This requires academic analysis that both appreciates the subtleties inherent to this region and can relate them to the wider systemic context. Many analysts have begun to allude to the challenging chara…
Nuclear Coercion and the Ending of the Korean Conflict
China’s rise and US hegemony
Doing some things' in the Xi Jinping era
A more powerful China under the seemingly confident leadership of President Xi Jinping has committed to a more activist global policy. In particular, this commitment has influenced Beijing's policy towards UN peacekeeping operations, with a long-awaited decision to add combat forces to the engineering troops and police and medical units that have been features of its past contribution. In addition, Beijing has doubled the size of its contribution…
Collateral damage
Journal Article Collateral damage: human rights consequences of counterterrorist action in the Asia—Pacific Get access ROSEMARY FOOT ROSEMARY FOOT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 2, March 2005, Pages 411–425, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2005.00458.x Published: 01 April 2005
China’s Influence on Asian States during the Creation of the U.N. Human Rights Council
The negotiations to create the U.N. Human Rights Council provided the Chinese government with opportunities to influence the design of the new body. China was unable to gain the necessary support to restrict the introduction of country-specific resolutions, but it received much support elsewhere without needing to use either coercion or inducement
China in the Asean Regional Forum
Research Article| May 01 1998 China in the ASEAN Regional Forum: Organizational Processes and Domestic Modes of Thought Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (5): 425–440. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645501 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permission…
Power transitions and great power management
What kind of challenge did a rising Japan in the 1970s and 1980s pose to the United States, and how does that differ from the challenge that China has posed to US primacy in East Asia since the early 2000s? This article compares and contrasts US responses to these two shifts in relative power, in the process aiming to elucidate how changes that portend a power transition are understood and dealt with and how great powers manage the security order…
Exceptionalism Again
When former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, gave his farewell address in December 2006, he expressed his dismay at the Bush administration's conduct during its anti-terrorist campaign. The United States had given up its vanguard role in the promotion of human rights, he averred, and appeared to have abandoned its ideals and principles. There have been many statements similar to this one made in the period since September 2001. Even close allies…
Making Known the Unknown War
Journal Article Making Known the Unknown War: Policy Analysis of the Korean Conflict in the Last Decade Get access Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 15, Issue 3, July 1991, Pages 411–432, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1991.tb00138.x Published: 01 June 2007
China’s and India’s search for international status through the UN system
As rising powers, China and India both perceive the United Nations as a primary venue for status seeking, and both express pride in narrating the ways in which they have supported the UN Charter and the maintenance of international peace and security. Given the competitive dynamic between these two countries, we might expect this competition to extend to their activities in global governance. In this article we develop and apply the concepts of ‘…
Global norms and major state behaviour
When do major states conform to or diverge from global behavioural norms? We argue that existing theories find it difficult to explain important aspects of this variation in behaviour and we offer instead a framework consisting of three explanatory variables: degree of ‘fit’ between global norms and dominant domestic-level norms; actor perceptions of procedural and substantive legitimacy; and actor perceptions of consequences for the global power…
Torture
The prohibition against torture has the status of a peremptory humanitarian norm. That is, it is considered binding on all states and no derogation under any circumstances is permitted. While the practice of torture has been widespread, until recently it had come to be understood that no representatives of the state could openly admit that they would use torture for fear of being removed from office and of having their state ostracized by 'civili…
The European Community's Voting Behaviour at the United Nations General Assembly
Institutional Design and Rhetorical Spaces
This article underlines the need to pay attention to institutional design in the analysis of China's stated aim of leading the reform of global governance.The argument made here is that institutional choice and institutional design matter in relation to the larger question of how Chinese objectives are translated into its desired outcomes.The process of translation is hindered or enabled not solely by the embeddedness of normative ideas but also …
China’s world view in the Xi Jinping Era
A ‘world view’ perspective is deployed to show President Xi Jinping’s dominance of China’s policy-making environment and the ideas that he and his leadership group have tried to promote. We use this framework to explain China’s relations with three major countries that are crucial to manage successfully in order for China to consolidate its global and regional ambitions – Japan, Russia and the United States. The article shows how the degree of al…
Human Rights and Counterterrorism in Global Governance
Focusing on U.S. and Asian state behavior, and UN and Asia-Pacific organizations, I explore the argument that a reputation for effectiveness in the counterterrorist campaign has become more significant than a reputation for defending human rights. I conclude that only where human rights issues had established a reasonably firm domestic and international institutional foothold before September 11, 2001, does a reputation built on concern for the p…
Human rights, democracy and development
China's regional activism
Why has China increased its attention to the Asia–Pacific region, especially since the late 1990s, and does it have a coherent short- and longer-term vision for the region as a whole? This article investigates these questions and notes the relationship between Beijing's regional activism and its global concerns, particularly as they relate to the United States. China now plays more of a leadership role in the region, is working hard to undermine …
Whatever happened to the Pacific Century
Typical of the opposing trends that have been a part of the decade 1989 to 1999, many of the states in the Asia-Pacific in these ten years have shifted from ‘miracle’ status to crisis. From being the political and economic model for other countries in both the developing and the developed world, they now signal how best to avoid the less savoury pitfalls of rapid development. The miracle status, deriving from two decades or more of impressive gro…
Chinese—Indian relations and the process of building confidence
China's traditional approach to security questions appears to be antithetical to the cooperative security approach that has been adopted by ASEAN and by embryonic multilateral organizations such as the ASEAN Regional Forum. Yet, in the course of normalizing relations with India, China has shown itself willing to explore the kind of confidence‐ and security‐building measures associated with this approach. Although it was a change in interests that…
R2P Sidelined
There has been a lack of recourse to the language of ‘The Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) in respect of reports that the Chinese government is perpetrating mass atrocity crimes against the Muslim minorities that reside in Xinjiang. What does this suggest about the overall normative power of R2P, and is the neglect of R2P reflective of a more general weakening in provisions designed to deal with wide-scale human rights abuses
The European Community's Voting Behaviour at the United Nations General Assembly
Sino‐Soviet rivalry in Kabul
The changing pattern of Afghanistan's relations with its neighbours∗
Revolutionary Afghanistan
Journal Article Revolutionary Afghanistan: A Reappraisal Get access Revolutionary Afghanistan: A Reappraisal. By Beverley Male. London, Canberra: Croom Helm. 1982. 229 pp. Index. £13.95. Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 4, Autumn 1982, Pages 711–712, https://doi.org/10.2307/2618519 Published: 01 October 1982
The Afghan Syndrome
Journal Article The Afghan Syndrome: How to Live with Soviet Power Get access The Afghan Syndrome: How to Live with Soviet Power. By Bhabani Sen Gupta. London: Croom Helm. 1982. 296 pp. Index. £12.95. Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 2, Spring 1983, Page 301, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620001 Published: 01 April 1983
Patterns in the dust
Patterns in the dust: Chinese-American relations and the recognition controversy, 1949–1950 Get access Patterns in the dust: Chinese-American relations and the recognition controversy, 1949–1950. By Nancy Bernkopf Tucker. New York: Columbia University Press. 1983. 396 pp. Index. $45.50. Pb.: $19.50. Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Vol…
The Sino-American conflict in Korea
South Asian Insecurity and the Great Powers
Anglo-American Relations in the Korean Crisis
After the end of the Second World War, Britain's position as a power of only middle rank became apparent. Its retreat from empire in India and from spheres of influence in the Middle East illustrated this weakened role in world politics, as did its dependence on American funds for its economic rehabilitation, and its desire for a strong U.S. military presence in Europe to guarantee security. When North Korea attacked South Korea in June 1950, the…
The United States and Korea
The Wrong War
Journal Article The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950–1953. By Rosemary Foot. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. 290 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95.) Get access John Edward Wilz John Edward Wilz Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1986, Pages 245–246, https://doi…
The Reluctant Crusade. American Foreign Policy in Korea, 1941-1950
The Korean War
Journal Article The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command, by Burton I. Kaufman Get access The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command by Burton I. Kaufman. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1986. 381 pp. $34.95. Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot University of Sussex, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 102, Issue 1, Spring 1987…
The Issue of War
Journal Article The issue of war: states, societies, and the Far Eastern conflict of 1941–1945, The first Vietnam war and The wrong war: American policy and the dimensions of the Korean conflict, 1950–1953 Get access The issue of war: states, societies, and the Far Eastern conflict of 1941–1945. By Christopher Thorne. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1985. 364pp. Index. ISBN 0 241 10239 1.The first Vietnam war. By Peter M. Dunn. London: Hurst. 1985. 392p…
Cracking the monolith
Journal Article Cracking the monolith: US policy against the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1949–1955 Get access Cracking the monolith: US policy against the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1949–1955. By David Allan Mayers. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. 1986. (Distrib. in UK by AUPG, London.) 176pp. Index. £25.00. ISBN 0 8071 12879. Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
The China connection
Journal Article The China connection: US policy and the People's Republic of China Get access The China connection: US policy and the People's Republic of China. By A. James Gregor. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press. 1986. 263pp. Index. $24.50; ISBN 0 8179 8291 4. Pb.: $15.95; ISBN 0 8179 8292 2. Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, V…
Assessing the first thirty years - revolutionary change in China
To the Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman. By Yue Daiyun and Carolyn Wakeman. London, University of California Press, 1986. £15.25.M Children of Mao: Personality Development and Political Activism in the Red Guard Generation. By Anita Chan. London, Macmillan, 1985. £25.00. Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China. By Margery Wolf. Stanford University Press, 1985. $24.95
Nuclear Coercion and the Ending of the Korean Conflict
The path to Vietnam
Journal Article The path to Vietnam: origins of the American commitment to Southeast Asia and Decision against war: Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu, 1954 Get access The path to Vietnam: origins of the American commitment to Southeast Asia. By Andrew J. Rotter. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1987. 278pp. Index. $29.95. ISBN 0 8014 1958 1.Decision against war: Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu, 1954. By Melanie Billings-Yun. New York: Columbia Unive…
A Substitute for Victory
She takes into account the role of the Western allies & the Indian, South Korean, North Korean, & Chinese governments as she examines the complex international setting in which the armistice took place
Where Are the Women? The Gender Dimension in the Study of International Relations
For two decades and more, students of international relations have been defining and redefining their subject. Few are satisfied any longer with a discipline that gives only an account of interstate relations within an international system.1 Within the confines of this journal, historians have argued persuasively for widening the perspective on diplomatic history. In recent issues, for example, William O. Walker III suggested that a cultural dime…
The Korean war in history
Journal Article The Korean war in history Get access The Korean war in history. Edited by James Cotton and Ian Neary. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1989. 187pp. Index. (Studies on East Asia.) £29.95. ISBN 0 7190 2984 8. Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot 1University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 1990, Page 213, https://doi.org/10.2307/26222…
A Substitute for Victory
Journal Article A Substitute for Victory: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks. By Rosemary Foot. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. xviii + 273 pp. $32.50.) Get access Justus D. Doenecke Justus D. Doenecke New College of the University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 742–743, https://doi.org/…
Friends and enemies
Journal Article Friends and enemies: the United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948–1972 Get access Friends and enemies: the United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948–1972. By Gordon H. Chang. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press. 1990. 383pp. Index. $25.00. ISBN 0 8471 565 3. Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot 1St Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, …
Making Known the Unknown War
Journal Article Making Known the Unknown War: Policy Analysis of the Korean Conflict in the Last Decade Get access Rosemary Foot Rosemary Foot Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 15, Issue 3, July 1991, Pages 411–432, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.1991.tb00138.x Published: 01 June 2007
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