Joshua Eisenman
Biographic Data
| ID | 361256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Eisenman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisenman |
| SIGNATURE | EISENMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4709-4353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Czechia’s relations with China: The asymmetric influence of a Central European small power
This study examines how Czechia protects and advances its interests in its relations with China. Based on more than two dozen interviews conducted in Czechia with government officials, China specialists, and cybersecurity experts, we identify three mechanisms through which Prague exercises influence and shapes how its partners think about and respond to Beijing. Czechia’s intrinsic power stems from its dissident tradition emerging from the shared…
Agency amid asymmetry: How small European states shape relations with a rising China
Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption
Locating Africa in China's community of shared future for mankind: A relational approach
This study applies a Chinese theoretical framework— relationality , as articulated by Qin Yaqing—to explain how Beijing creates and manipulates its relations with African partners to advance its “core interests” and leadership of the Global South. Relationality elucidates the “Community of Shared Future for Mankind”—an interlocking, multitiered network of Sinocentric relationships based on traditional Confucian conceptions of reciprocity. The per…
China’s relational power in Africa: Beijing’s ‘new type of party-to-party relations’
Using a Chinese conceptualisation of social capital—Qin Yaqing’s ‘relational theory of world politics’ (i.e. ‘relationality’)—along with informal interviews and two decades of official data this study explains how and why the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (ID-CPC) is building relationships with African political elites. It shows how the department has become the institutional embodiment of relat…
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal
The politics of international finance for coal power plants have intensified since the 2015 Paris climate agreement was negotiated. Over the past few years, Japan and South Korea have signaled their intent not to fund new coal projects overseas, leaving China and its Belt and Road Initiative as the ‘financier of last resort.’ In September 2021, China too announced its intent to stop providing finance for overseas coal projects. What accounts for …
The Challenges of Coal Phaseout: Coal Plant Development and Foreign Finance in Indonesia and Vietnam
Global coal use must be phased out if we are to minimize temperature increases associated with climate change. Most new coal plants are being built in the Asia Pacific and rely on overseas finance, with Indonesia and Vietnam the leading recipients. However, the politics of coal plant finance are changing, with many projects cancelled in recent years. This article explores the factors that led to coal plant cancellations in Vietnam and Indonesia. …
Evolving Principles and Guiding Concepts: How China Gains African Support for its Core National Interests
China’s Vietnam War Revisited: A Domestic Politics Perspective
This study examines the role elite factional politics played in China’s decision to attack Vietnam in February 1979. Whereas existing studies have clarified the geopolitical context and the influence of China’s international relations with other states, this one unlocks the connections between the war, China’s post-Mao political succession struggle, and a long-standing dispute between the supporters of two distinct military doctrines—Mao’s People…
China Steps Out: Beijing’s Major Power Engagement with the Developing World
China Steps Out: Beijing's Major Power Engagement with the Developing World
Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune
China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity…
Comrades-in-arms: The Chinese Communist Party’s relations with African political organisations in the Mao era, 1949–76
This study examines the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) motives, objectives, and methods vis-à-vis its African counterparts during the Mao era, 1949–76. Beginning in the mid-1950s, to oppose colonialism and US imperialism, the CCP created front groups to administer its political outreach in Africa. In the 1960s and 1970s, this strategy evolved to combat Soviet hegemony. Although these policy shifts are distinguished by changes in…
The price of persecution: The long-term effects of the Anti-Rightist Campaign on economic performance in post-Mao China
Commune Kabuki: Development and Productivity Growth under Maoist China's Rural Collectives
The key question for a developing country with a fast-growing population is how to increase savings rates and make productive investments that take advantage of high returns to capital. This study demonstrates that after the disastrous Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), China's commune system administered a nationwide agricultural modernization programme that was able to deliver continuous robust increases in agricultural productivity throughout the…
Organizational Structure, Policy Learning, and Economic Performance: Evidence from the Chinese Commune
Using original county-level panel data on Chinese communes over two decades, 1958 to 1979, this article builds upon existing theories about the influence of organizational size and structure on institutional performance. We found a consistent and robust interaction effect among the size of the commune (i.e., the coordination level) and its subunits, the brigade (i.e., the supervisory level) and production teams (i.e., the working level), on agric…
Beyond Engagement? Rethinking America’s China Policy
Since the Nixon Administration, the US strategy towards China has been predicated on the assumption that if the bilateral relationship is properly managed conflict can be avoided. Many Americans ac
China and Africa: A Century of Engagement
The recent growth in relations between China and the nations of Africa is one of the most important geopolitical phenomena of our time. China and Africa presents a unique, comprehensive view of this relationship. This monumental study, the first since the 1970s, examines China's ties with all of Africa's 54 countries.
China–Africa Trade Patterns: Causes and consequences
China's trade patterns with African countries have made Beijing the focal point of new anti-Chinese resistance narratives in Africa. Unlike the Maoist era, when China's trade policies served its leaders' political goals, now they aim to access markets as part of China's larger domestic development strategy. China's state-run firms can channel China–Africa trade through extra-market decisions that influence flows, yet, ultimately, Beijing's abilit…
China's Africa Strategy
Beijing has enjoyed considerable success in Africa, building close ties with countries from Sudan to South Africa, becoming a vital aid donor ..., and developing military relationships with many of the continent's powers
China–Africa Trade Patterns: Causes and consequences
China's trade patterns with African countries have made Beijing the focal point of new anti-Chinese resistance narratives in Africa. Unlike the Maoist era, when China's trade policies served its leaders' political goals, now they aim to access markets as part of China's larger domestic development strategy. China's state-run firms can channel China–Africa trade through extra-market decisions that influence flows, yet, ultimately, Beijing's abilit…
The price of persecution: The long-term effects of the Anti-Rightist Campaign on economic performance in post-Mao China
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal
The politics of international finance for coal power plants have intensified since the 2015 Paris climate agreement was negotiated. Over the past few years, Japan and South Korea have signaled their intent not to fund new coal projects overseas, leaving China and its Belt and Road Initiative as the ‘financier of last resort.’ In September 2021, China too announced its intent to stop providing finance for overseas coal projects. What accounts for …
Evolving Principles and Guiding Concepts: How China Gains African Support for its Core National Interests
Comrades-in-arms: The Chinese Communist Party’s relations with African political organisations in the Mao era, 1949–76
This study examines the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) motives, objectives, and methods vis-à-vis its African counterparts during the Mao era, 1949–76. Beginning in the mid-1950s, to oppose colonialism and US imperialism, the CCP created front groups to administer its political outreach in Africa. In the 1960s and 1970s, this strategy evolved to combat Soviet hegemony. Although these policy shifts are distinguished by changes in…
Commune Kabuki: Development and Productivity Growth under Maoist China's Rural Collectives
The key question for a developing country with a fast-growing population is how to increase savings rates and make productive investments that take advantage of high returns to capital. This study demonstrates that after the disastrous Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), China's commune system administered a nationwide agricultural modernization programme that was able to deliver continuous robust increases in agricultural productivity throughout the…
The Challenges of Coal Phaseout: Coal Plant Development and Foreign Finance in Indonesia and Vietnam
Global coal use must be phased out if we are to minimize temperature increases associated with climate change. Most new coal plants are being built in the Asia Pacific and rely on overseas finance, with Indonesia and Vietnam the leading recipients. However, the politics of coal plant finance are changing, with many projects cancelled in recent years. This article explores the factors that led to coal plant cancellations in Vietnam and Indonesia. …
China’s Vietnam War Revisited: A Domestic Politics Perspective
This study examines the role elite factional politics played in China’s decision to attack Vietnam in February 1979. Whereas existing studies have clarified the geopolitical context and the influence of China’s international relations with other states, this one unlocks the connections between the war, China’s post-Mao political succession struggle, and a long-standing dispute between the supporters of two distinct military doctrines—Mao’s People…
Organizational Structure, Policy Learning, and Economic Performance: Evidence from the Chinese Commune
Using original county-level panel data on Chinese communes over two decades, 1958 to 1979, this article builds upon existing theories about the influence of organizational size and structure on institutional performance. We found a consistent and robust interaction effect among the size of the commune (i.e., the coordination level) and its subunits, the brigade (i.e., the supervisory level) and production teams (i.e., the working level), on agric…
China's Africa Strategy
Beijing has enjoyed considerable success in Africa, building close ties with countries from Sudan to South Africa, becoming a vital aid donor ..., and developing military relationships with many of the continent's powers
China and Africa: A Century of Engagement
The recent growth in relations between China and the nations of Africa is one of the most important geopolitical phenomena of our time. China and Africa presents a unique, comprehensive view of this relationship. This monumental study, the first since the 1970s, examines China's ties with all of Africa's 54 countries.
China–Africa Trade Patterns: Causes and consequences
China's trade patterns with African countries have made Beijing the focal point of new anti-Chinese resistance narratives in Africa. Unlike the Maoist era, when China's trade policies served its leaders' political goals, now they aim to access markets as part of China's larger domestic development strategy. China's state-run firms can channel China–Africa trade through extra-market decisions that influence flows, yet, ultimately, Beijing's abilit…
Beyond Engagement? Rethinking America’s China Policy
Since the Nixon Administration, the US strategy towards China has been predicated on the assumption that if the bilateral relationship is properly managed conflict can be avoided. Many Americans ac
China Steps Out: Beijing’s Major Power Engagement with the Developing World
China Steps Out: Beijing's Major Power Engagement with the Developing World
Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune
China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the commune modernized agriculture, increased productivity…
Comrades-in-arms: The Chinese Communist Party’s relations with African political organisations in the Mao era, 1949–76
This study examines the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) motives, objectives, and methods vis-à-vis its African counterparts during the Mao era, 1949–76. Beginning in the mid-1950s, to oppose colonialism and US imperialism, the CCP created front groups to administer its political outreach in Africa. In the 1960s and 1970s, this strategy evolved to combat Soviet hegemony. Although these policy shifts are distinguished by changes in…
The price of persecution: The long-term effects of the Anti-Rightist Campaign on economic performance in post-Mao China
Commune Kabuki: Development and Productivity Growth under Maoist China's Rural Collectives
The key question for a developing country with a fast-growing population is how to increase savings rates and make productive investments that take advantage of high returns to capital. This study demonstrates that after the disastrous Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), China's commune system administered a nationwide agricultural modernization programme that was able to deliver continuous robust increases in agricultural productivity throughout the…
Organizational Structure, Policy Learning, and Economic Performance: Evidence from the Chinese Commune
Using original county-level panel data on Chinese communes over two decades, 1958 to 1979, this article builds upon existing theories about the influence of organizational size and structure on institutional performance. We found a consistent and robust interaction effect among the size of the commune (i.e., the coordination level) and its subunits, the brigade (i.e., the supervisory level) and production teams (i.e., the working level), on agric…
China’s Vietnam War Revisited: A Domestic Politics Perspective
This study examines the role elite factional politics played in China’s decision to attack Vietnam in February 1979. Whereas existing studies have clarified the geopolitical context and the influence of China’s international relations with other states, this one unlocks the connections between the war, China’s post-Mao political succession struggle, and a long-standing dispute between the supporters of two distinct military doctrines—Mao’s People…
Evolving Principles and Guiding Concepts: How China Gains African Support for its Core National Interests
The Challenges of Coal Phaseout: Coal Plant Development and Foreign Finance in Indonesia and Vietnam
Global coal use must be phased out if we are to minimize temperature increases associated with climate change. Most new coal plants are being built in the Asia Pacific and rely on overseas finance, with Indonesia and Vietnam the leading recipients. However, the politics of coal plant finance are changing, with many projects cancelled in recent years. This article explores the factors that led to coal plant cancellations in Vietnam and Indonesia. …
Locating Africa in China's community of shared future for mankind: A relational approach
This study applies a Chinese theoretical framework— relationality , as articulated by Qin Yaqing—to explain how Beijing creates and manipulates its relations with African partners to advance its “core interests” and leadership of the Global South. Relationality elucidates the “Community of Shared Future for Mankind”—an interlocking, multitiered network of Sinocentric relationships based on traditional Confucian conceptions of reciprocity. The per…
China’s relational power in Africa: Beijing’s ‘new type of party-to-party relations’
Using a Chinese conceptualisation of social capital—Qin Yaqing’s ‘relational theory of world politics’ (i.e. ‘relationality’)—along with informal interviews and two decades of official data this study explains how and why the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (ID-CPC) is building relationships with African political elites. It shows how the department has become the institutional embodiment of relat…
Hard to say goodbye: South Korea, Japan, and China as the last lenders for coal
The politics of international finance for coal power plants have intensified since the 2015 Paris climate agreement was negotiated. Over the past few years, Japan and South Korea have signaled their intent not to fund new coal projects overseas, leaving China and its Belt and Road Initiative as the ‘financier of last resort.’ In September 2021, China too announced its intent to stop providing finance for overseas coal projects. What accounts for …
Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption
Czechia’s relations with China: The asymmetric influence of a Central European small power
This study examines how Czechia protects and advances its interests in its relations with China. Based on more than two dozen interviews conducted in Czechia with government officials, China specialists, and cybersecurity experts, we identify three mechanisms through which Prague exercises influence and shapes how its partners think about and respond to Beijing. Czechia’s intrinsic power stems from its dissident tradition emerging from the shared…
Agency amid asymmetry: How small European states shape relations with a rising China
China (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · International Development and Aid (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Beijing (7 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Geography (7 works)