Huiyun Feng
Biographic Data
| ID | 4075190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Huiyun Feng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Huiyun |
| FAMILY NAME | Feng |
| SIGNATURE | FENG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6565-9610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Debating Global International Relations (IR): Philosophical and Meta-Theoretical Perspectives
The debate over essentialism in Global International Relations (IR), illustrated by Barnett and Zarakol’s “relationalist camp” and Eun, Kristensen, and Shahi’s “pluralist camp,” reflects a deeper philosophical misalignment about what constitutes theoretical progress in IR. While the two sides offer contrasting diagnoses of essentialism, neither engages explicitly with the philosophy of science, which offers criteria for assessing progress: Kuhn’s…
International relations theory and US–China competition: A theoretical exploration
Drawing on insights from three dominant IR paradigms – realism, liberalism, and constructivism – this essay examines three critical questions regarding US–China competition: (1) Why do the United States and China compete? (2) How do they compete? (3) How can this competition be managed constructively? We argue that realism, particularly structural realism, provides the most compelling explanation for the intensifying rivalry between the United St…
IR Theory and Australia’s Policy Change Towards China, 2017–2022: An Introduction Essay
China’s Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy Dylan M. H. Loh
The positive externalities of US-China institutional balancing in the Indo-Pacific
Challenging the pessimistic and alarmist view of competition between the United States and China, we propose a soft balancing argument-institutional balancing for peace (shortened to 'institutional peace')-to highlight the positive outcomes of their strategic rivalry. We argue that globalization, economic interdependence and nuclear deterrence have motivated the US and China to engage in institutional balancing to vie for security, power and infl…
IR Theory and Australia’s Policy Change Towards China, 2017-2022: An Introductory Essay
The bilateral relationship between Australia and China has undergone significant challenges and fluctuations in recent years, arousing substantial interest among scholars in the field of International Relations (IR). This paper examines Australia's policy changes towards China during the period of 2017-2022 from an IR theory perspective. By critically evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of prevailing arguments through the theoretical lenses o…
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime
The ongoing war in Ukraine has thrust China-Russia relations into the global spotlight, with both nations asserting their stance against forming a military alliance. This article introduces a novel 'balance-of-beliefs' framework, positing that the foundation of peacetime alliances lies in leaders' shared beliefs. Using operational code analysis, this study quantifies the philosophical and instrumental beliefs of leaders from the United States (Ba…
Comparative Foreign Policy
Comparative foreign policy (CFP) emerged as a distinct research program in foreign policy analysis (FPA) during the period of the behavioural revolution in the United States in the 1960s and the 1970s. It gradually faded away in the field because it failed to develop generalizable, grand foreign policy theories as originally intended. Through examining three CFP-related approaches, the area-studies school, the middle-range theory, and the specifi…
WuhanDiary and #WuhanLockdown: Gendered posting patterns and behaviours on Weibo during the Covid-19 pandemic
Social media can be both a source of information and misinformation during health emergencies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media became a ubiquitous tool for people to communicate and represents a rich source of data researchers can use to analyse users’ experiences, knowledge and sentiments. Research on social media posts during COVID-19 has identified, to date, the perpetuity of traditional gendered norms and experiences. Yet these stu…
Covid-19, sex, and gender in China: A scoping review
Using gender analysis matrixes to integrate a gender lens into infectious diseases outbreaks research
Evidence shows that infectious disease outbreaks are not gender-neutral, meaning that women, men and gender minorities are differentially affected. This evidence affirms the need to better incorporate a gender lens into infectious disease outbreaks. Despite this evidence, there has been a historic neglect of gender-based analysis in health, including during health crises. Recognizing the lack of available evidence on gender and pandemics in early…
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific
The world is changing, and the liberal international order (LIO) is at stake. Scholars and pundits hold different views on whether and how an order transition will take place. We argue that the divergent arguments around LIO are rooted in contested conceptualizations of what an international order is as well as the untheorized measure of what counts as a ‘transition’ of international order. We propose a synthesized and deductive approach to defin…
Navigating international order transition in the Indo Pacific
The world is in crisis. The Covid pandemic and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war signify a potential order transition in the international system. The Indo Pacific is at the center of gravity of great power competition between the US and China. How have policy elites in the region perceived the potential order transition against the background of US-China strategic competition? How have states, including both great and secondary powers, chosen diffe…
Role status and status-saving behaviour in world politics: The Asean case
Most research on status in international politics focuses on a state's 'trait status', defined by valued attributes that a state possesses, but ignores the importance of 'role status', which is constituted through state interactions and competent practices in world politics. By integrating prospect theory and role status scholarship, this article introduces a 'status-saving' argument to shed light on how states adopt risk-acceptant strategies to …
Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order
What motivates states to act the way they do? This book focuses on a particular kind of motivation inclining a state to challenge the existing norms, rules, and institutions of international order. Specifically, it addresses the concept of revisionism, which has loomed large in international relations narratives but has remained largely understudied until recently. The authors offer a critique of the existing discourse on revisionism and investig…
More than a public health crisis: A feminist political economic analysis of Covid-19
Gender norms, roles and relations differentially affect women, men, and non-binary individuals' vulnerability to disease. Outbreak response measures also have immediate and long-term gendered effects. However, gender-based analysis of outbreaks and responses is limited by lack of data and little integration of feminist analysis within global health scholarship. Recognising these barriers, this paper applies a gender matrix methodology, grounded i…
Rethinking Revisionism in World Politics
Revisionism is an important concept in international relations discourse, and it is especially prevalent in discussions about relations between China and the United States in the context of a possible power transition. Yet, this concept has until recently not received the systematic research attention that it deserves. We present in this essay different strategies that a revisionist state may pursue. It builds on recent scholarship by other colle…
Women are most affected by pandemics — lessons from past outbreaks
The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 fall harder on women than on men. Governments need to gather data and target policy to keep all citizens equally safe, sheltered and secure.
China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond “Thucydides's Trap”
China's Challenges and International Order Transition introduces an integrated conceptual framework of "international order" categorized by three levels (power, rules, and norms) and three issue-areas (security, political, and economic). Each contributor engages one or more of these analytical dimensions to examine two questions: (1) Has China already challenged this dimension of international order? (2) How will China challenge this dimension of…
The study of Chinese scholars in foreign policy analysis: An emerging research program
A review of studies of China’s foreign policy reveals three dominant methods: the area studies approach, the IR theory method, and the integrated approach. We suggest that it is time to pay close attention to an emerging research program focusing on the study of Chinese international relations (IR) scholars, especially their internal debates, as a new venue to understand China’s foreign policy. Although Chinese IR scholars are normally quoted as …
International Institutions, Institutional Balancing, and Peaceful Order Transition
As part of the roundtable “International Institutions and Peaceful Change,” this essay focuses on the “Kindleberger trap,” a term coined by Joseph Nye Jr. referring to the situation in which no country takes the lead to maintain international institutions in the international system. President Trump's destructive policies toward many international institutions seem to push the current international order to the brink of the Kindleberger trap. Iro…
The institutionalization of the Indo-Pacific: Problems and Prospects
Although the term 'Indo-Pacific' has become popular in the foreign policy discourse of some countries, we have yet to see any significant institution-building in the Indo-Pacific region. Borrowing insights from functional institutionalism and political leadership studies of international regimes, we introduce a 'leadership-institution' model to explore the problems and prospects of institutionalizing the Indo-Pacific. Through a comparative case s…
Chinese Scholars and Foreign Policy: Debating International Relations
Leadership Transition and Global Governance: Role Conception, Institutional Balancing, and the Aiib
The establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) signified China’s ‘charm offensive’ towards multilateral institutions and existing global financial governance. If the rise of China is inevitable, what will the future world look like, and what should other countries be prepared for? Borrowing insights from institutional balancing theory and role theory in foreign policy analysis, this project introduces a ‘leadership transitio…
A dynamic strategic culture model and China’s behaviour in the South China Sea
This paper provides a new theoretical framework to explain China’s strategic behaviour along with its rise and in doing so engages with the debate on strategic culture between Colin Gray and Alastair Johnston. We suggest that China’s behaviour is shaped by two variables: realpolitik realist threat perceptions on the strategic level and Confucian moralist cultural norms on the ideational level. In the case of a high strategic threat, China’s behav…
Debating China's assertiveness: Taking China's power and interests seriously
The Operational Code of Mao Zedong: Defensive or Offensive Realist
Whether China's strategic culture is offensive or defensive in nature is an interesting question in understanding Chinese foreign policy behavior. Alastair Johnston argues for a parabellum culture of offensive realism that leads to a pattern of Chinese aggressive behavior. But China's behavior in the Korean War, the Sino-Indian War, and the Sino-Vietnam War shows a defensive pattern that Johnston's analysis cannot fully explain. By analyzing the …
Transcending rationalism and constructivism: Chinese leaders’ operational codes, socialization processes, and multilateralism after the Cold War
This paper challenges both rationalist and constructivist approaches in explaining China’s foreign policy behavior toward multilateral institutions after the Cold War. Borrowing insights from socialization theory and operational code analysis, this paper suggests a ‘superficial socialization’ argument to explain China’s pro-multilateralist diplomacy after the Cold War. Using operational code analysis to examine belief changes across three generat…
International order transition and US-China strategic competition in the indo pacific
The world is changing, and the liberal international order (LIO) is at stake. Scholars and pundits hold different views on whether and how an order transition will take place. We argue that the divergent arguments around LIO are rooted in contested conceptualizations of what an international order is as well as the untheorized measure of what counts as a ‘transition’ of international order. We propose a synthesized and deductive approach to defin…
Rethinking Revisionism in World Politics
Revisionism is an important concept in international relations discourse, and it is especially prevalent in discussions about relations between China and the United States in the context of a possible power transition. Yet, this concept has until recently not received the systematic research attention that it deserves. We present in this essay different strategies that a revisionist state may pursue. It builds on recent scholarship by other colle…
The study of Chinese scholars in foreign policy analysis: An emerging research program
A review of studies of China’s foreign policy reveals three dominant methods: the area studies approach, the IR theory method, and the integrated approach. We suggest that it is time to pay close attention to an emerging research program focusing on the study of Chinese international relations (IR) scholars, especially their internal debates, as a new venue to understand China’s foreign policy. Although Chinese IR scholars are normally quoted as …
How Chinese scholars think about Chinese foreign policy
China’s assertive diplomacy in recent years has ignited intense debates among international relations (IR) scholars. Some argue that China’s assertive behaviour is rooted in its perception of increasing power and capabilities. Others suggest that it is US policies that triggered China’s assertive reactions. Relying on an original survey of China’s IR scholars conducted in Beijing in 2013 and using structural equation modelling, we empirically exa…
Leadership, regime security, and China's policy toward Taiwan: Prospect theory and Taiwan crises
Traditional analyses of Taiwan crises have relied mainly on deterrence theory for their explanatory power. This approach fails to account for China's risk-taking behavior, which can be explained by prospect theory. We suggest that Chinese leaders are more likely to use more risky military coercion against Taiwan's pro-independence movements within a domain of losses, i.e., when their regime faces serious domestic and international challenges to i…
Navigating international order transition in the Indo Pacific
The world is in crisis. The Covid pandemic and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war signify a potential order transition in the international system. The Indo Pacific is at the center of gravity of great power competition between the US and China. How have policy elites in the region perceived the potential order transition against the background of US-China strategic competition? How have states, including both great and secondary powers, chosen diffe…
Leadership Transition and Global Governance: Role Conception, Institutional Balancing, and the Aiib
The establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) signified China’s ‘charm offensive’ towards multilateral institutions and existing global financial governance. If the rise of China is inevitable, what will the future world look like, and what should other countries be prepared for? Borrowing insights from institutional balancing theory and role theory in foreign policy analysis, this project introduces a ‘leadership transitio…
A dynamic strategic culture model and China’s behaviour in the South China Sea
This paper provides a new theoretical framework to explain China’s strategic behaviour along with its rise and in doing so engages with the debate on strategic culture between Colin Gray and Alastair Johnston. We suggest that China’s behaviour is shaped by two variables: realpolitik realist threat perceptions on the strategic level and Confucian moralist cultural norms on the ideational level. In the case of a high strategic threat, China’s behav…
IR Theory and Australia’s Policy Change Towards China, 2017-2022: An Introductory Essay
The bilateral relationship between Australia and China has undergone significant challenges and fluctuations in recent years, arousing substantial interest among scholars in the field of International Relations (IR). This paper examines Australia's policy changes towards China during the period of 2017-2022 from an IR theory perspective. By critically evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of prevailing arguments through the theoretical lenses o…
Why will China and Russia not form an alliance? The balance of beliefs in peacetime
The ongoing war in Ukraine has thrust China-Russia relations into the global spotlight, with both nations asserting their stance against forming a military alliance. This article introduces a novel 'balance-of-beliefs' framework, positing that the foundation of peacetime alliances lies in leaders' shared beliefs. Using operational code analysis, this study quantifies the philosophical and instrumental beliefs of leaders from the United States (Ba…
The institutionalization of the Indo-Pacific: Problems and Prospects
Although the term 'Indo-Pacific' has become popular in the foreign policy discourse of some countries, we have yet to see any significant institution-building in the Indo-Pacific region. Borrowing insights from functional institutionalism and political leadership studies of international regimes, we introduce a 'leadership-institution' model to explore the problems and prospects of institutionalizing the Indo-Pacific. Through a comparative case s…
Prospect theory, operational code analysis, and risk-taking behaviour: A new model of China’s crisis behaviour
Integrating prospect theory and operational code analysis, this paper introduces an innovative approach to studying the decision making of Chinese leaders during crises. The unique contribution of this paper is to adopt the methodology of operational code analysis to measure the domain of actions of policy makers in the application of prospect theory. We suggest that leaders’ operational code beliefs can help us to identify in which domain of act…
America in the Eyes of America Watchers: Survey research in Beijing in 2012
Based on an original survey conducted in the summer of 2012 in Beijing, we examine how China's America watchers—IR scholars who work on US-China relations—have viewed China's power status in the international system, US-China relations and some specific US policies in Asia. Our survey shows that almost half of the survey participants thought that America would remain the global hegemon in the next ten years. Meanwhile, a large majority was also o…
Why is there no Nato in Asia?’ revisited: Prospect theory, balance of threat, and US alliance strategies
Why did the US prefer multilateral alliances in Europe, but bilateral alliances in Asia after World War II? Rationalists and constructivists debate the impact of power, institutions, and identities in explaining this highly contested question. We introduce a new argument embedded in prospect theory from political psychology — a prospect–threat alliance model — to account for the variation in US alliance strategy toward Europe and Asia after World…
The positive externalities of US-China institutional balancing in the Indo-Pacific
Challenging the pessimistic and alarmist view of competition between the United States and China, we propose a soft balancing argument-institutional balancing for peace (shortened to 'institutional peace')-to highlight the positive outcomes of their strategic rivalry. We argue that globalization, economic interdependence and nuclear deterrence have motivated the US and China to engage in institutional balancing to vie for security, power and infl…
Role status and status-saving behaviour in world politics: The Asean case
Most research on status in international politics focuses on a state's 'trait status', defined by valued attributes that a state possesses, but ignores the importance of 'role status', which is constituted through state interactions and competent practices in world politics. By integrating prospect theory and role status scholarship, this article introduces a 'status-saving' argument to shed light on how states adopt risk-acceptant strategies to …
International Institutions, Institutional Balancing, and Peaceful Order Transition
As part of the roundtable “International Institutions and Peaceful Change,” this essay focuses on the “Kindleberger trap,” a term coined by Joseph Nye Jr. referring to the situation in which no country takes the lead to maintain international institutions in the international system. President Trump's destructive policies toward many international institutions seem to push the current international order to the brink of the Kindleberger trap. Iro…
China’s Bargaining Strategies for a Peaceful Rise: Successes and Challenges
Applying bargaining theory of international conflicts, we examine the successes and challenges of China’s strategic choices in its ascent after the Cold War. We suggest that China needs to alleviate information and commitment problems in order to rise peacefully. Since 2008, China’s “peaceful rise” strategy has faced serious challenges because of its “assertive turn” in diplomacy. We argue that China has not alleviated or settled these two proble…
The Operational Code of Mao Zedong: Defensive or Offensive Realist
Whether China's strategic culture is offensive or defensive in nature is an interesting question in understanding Chinese foreign policy behavior. Alastair Johnston argues for a parabellum culture of offensive realism that leads to a pattern of Chinese aggressive behavior. But China's behavior in the Korean War, the Sino-Indian War, and the Sino-Vietnam War shows a defensive pattern that Johnston's analysis cannot fully explain. By analyzing the …
Crisis Deferred: An Operational Code Analysis of Chinese Leaders Across the Strait
With increasing tensions over the Taiwan Strait after the reelection victory of the independence-oriented, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Chen Shuibian, speculations and concerns over the future of Taiwan and Sino-American relations have intensified. Will China use force against Taiwan? A crucial related question is what should the United States do? The implications of a Taiwan Strait conflict for the United States are complicated and far-…
Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Examining the major academic and policy debates over China’s rise and related policy issues, this book looks into the motivations and intentions of a rising China. Most of the scholarly works on China’s rise approach the question at a structural level by looking at the international system and the systemic impact on China’s foreign policy. Traditional Realist theorists define China as a revisionist power eager to address wrongs done to them in hi…
If Not Soft Balancing, Then What? Reconsidering Soft Balancing and U.S. Policy Toward China
Some scholars argue that soft balancing is a typical state behavior against the hegemon under unipolarity. Others contend that soft balancing against the hegemon is ineffective. We challenge both arguments and suggest that soft balancing is not only a product of specific configurations of the power distribution in the system, unipolarity, but also a rational behavior under another condition, economic dependence. We argue that the interplay betwee…
Leadership, regime security, and China's policy toward Taiwan: Prospect theory and Taiwan crises
Traditional analyses of Taiwan crises have relied mainly on deterrence theory for their explanatory power. This approach fails to account for China's risk-taking behavior, which can be explained by prospect theory. We suggest that Chinese leaders are more likely to use more risky military coercion against Taiwan's pro-independence movements within a domain of losses, i.e., when their regime faces serious domestic and international challenges to i…
Debating China's assertiveness: Taking China's power and interests seriously
Why is there no Nato in Asia?’ revisited: Prospect theory, balance of threat, and US alliance strategies
Why did the US prefer multilateral alliances in Europe, but bilateral alliances in Asia after World War II? Rationalists and constructivists debate the impact of power, institutions, and identities in explaining this highly contested question. We introduce a new argument embedded in prospect theory from political psychology — a prospect–threat alliance model — to account for the variation in US alliance strategy toward Europe and Asia after World…
Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior
"Why does North Korea behave erratically in pursuing its nuclear weapons program? Why did the United States prefer bilateral alliances to multilateral ones in Asia after World War II? Why did China become "nice"--no more military coercion--in dealing with the pro-independence Taiwan President Chen Shuibian after 2000? Why did China compromise in the negotiation of the Chunxiao gas exploration in 2008 while Japan became provocative later in the Si…
China’s Bargaining Strategies for a Peaceful Rise: Successes and Challenges
Applying bargaining theory of international conflicts, we examine the successes and challenges of China’s strategic choices in its ascent after the Cold War. We suggest that China needs to alleviate information and commitment problems in order to rise peacefully. Since 2008, China’s “peaceful rise” strategy has faced serious challenges because of its “assertive turn” in diplomacy. We argue that China has not alleviated or settled these two proble…
America in the Eyes of America Watchers: Survey research in Beijing in 2012
Based on an original survey conducted in the summer of 2012 in Beijing, we examine how China's America watchers—IR scholars who work on US-China relations—have viewed China's power status in the international system, US-China relations and some specific US policies in Asia. Our survey shows that almost half of the survey participants thought that America would remain the global hegemon in the next ten years. Meanwhile, a large majority was also o…
Transcending rationalism and constructivism: Chinese leaders’ operational codes, socialization processes, and multilateralism after the Cold War
This paper challenges both rationalist and constructivist approaches in explaining China’s foreign policy behavior toward multilateral institutions after the Cold War. Borrowing insights from socialization theory and operational code analysis, this paper suggests a ‘superficial socialization’ argument to explain China’s pro-multilateralist diplomacy after the Cold War. Using operational code analysis to examine belief changes across three generat…
How Chinese scholars think about Chinese foreign policy
China’s assertive diplomacy in recent years has ignited intense debates among international relations (IR) scholars. Some argue that China’s assertive behaviour is rooted in its perception of increasing power and capabilities. Others suggest that it is US policies that triggered China’s assertive reactions. Relying on an original survey of China’s IR scholars conducted in Beijing in 2013 and using structural equation modelling, we empirically exa…
Guest Editors' Note
With generous support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Grant No. 16-1512-150509- IPS), the Griffith Asia Institute is able to collaborate successfully with Tsinghua University's Institute of International Relations to carry out a research project, entitled, ‘Understanding the Rise of China through the Eyes of Chinese IR Scholars’. This project intends to bridge the perception gap between China and the outside world. This sp…
Prospect theory, operational code analysis, and risk-taking behaviour: A new model of China’s crisis behaviour
Integrating prospect theory and operational code analysis, this paper introduces an innovative approach to studying the decision making of Chinese leaders during crises. The unique contribution of this paper is to adopt the methodology of operational code analysis to measure the domain of actions of policy makers in the application of prospect theory. We suggest that leaders’ operational code beliefs can help us to identify in which domain of act…
Chinese Scholars and Foreign Policy: Debating International Relations
Leadership Transition and Global Governance: Role Conception, Institutional Balancing, and the Aiib
The establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) signified China’s ‘charm offensive’ towards multilateral institutions and existing global financial governance. If the rise of China is inevitable, what will the future world look like, and what should other countries be prepared for? Borrowing insights from institutional balancing theory and role theory in foreign policy analysis, this project introduces a ‘leadership transitio…
A dynamic strategic culture model and China’s behaviour in the South China Sea
This paper provides a new theoretical framework to explain China’s strategic behaviour along with its rise and in doing so engages with the debate on strategic culture between Colin Gray and Alastair Johnston. We suggest that China’s behaviour is shaped by two variables: realpolitik realist threat perceptions on the strategic level and Confucian moralist cultural norms on the ideational level. In the case of a high strategic threat, China’s behav…
How China Sees the World: Insights From China’s International Relations Scholars
This book intends to make sense of how Chinese leaders perceive China’s rise in the world through the eyes of China’s international relations (IR) scholars. Drawing on a unique, four-year opinion survey of these scholars at the annual conference of the Chinese Community of Political Science and International Studies (CCPSIS) in Beijing from 2014–2017, the authors examine Chinese IR scholars’ perceptions of and views on key issues related to China…
Chinese Scholars and Foreign Policy
Women are most affected by pandemics — lessons from past outbreaks
The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 fall harder on women than on men. Governments need to gather data and target policy to keep all citizens equally safe, sheltered and secure.
China’s Challenges and International Order Transition: Beyond “Thucydides's Trap”
China's Challenges and International Order Transition introduces an integrated conceptual framework of "international order" categorized by three levels (power, rules, and norms) and three issue-areas (security, political, and economic). Each contributor engages one or more of these analytical dimensions to examine two questions: (1) Has China already challenged this dimension of international order? (2) How will China challenge this dimension of…
The study of Chinese scholars in foreign policy analysis: An emerging research program
A review of studies of China’s foreign policy reveals three dominant methods: the area studies approach, the IR theory method, and the integrated approach. We suggest that it is time to pay close attention to an emerging research program focusing on the study of Chinese international relations (IR) scholars, especially their internal debates, as a new venue to understand China’s foreign policy. Although Chinese IR scholars are normally quoted as …
International Institutions, Institutional Balancing, and Peaceful Order Transition
As part of the roundtable “International Institutions and Peaceful Change,” this essay focuses on the “Kindleberger trap,” a term coined by Joseph Nye Jr. referring to the situation in which no country takes the lead to maintain international institutions in the international system. President Trump's destructive policies toward many international institutions seem to push the current international order to the brink of the Kindleberger trap. Iro…
The institutionalization of the Indo-Pacific: Problems and Prospects
Although the term 'Indo-Pacific' has become popular in the foreign policy discourse of some countries, we have yet to see any significant institution-building in the Indo-Pacific region. Borrowing insights from functional institutionalism and political leadership studies of international regimes, we introduce a 'leadership-institution' model to explore the problems and prospects of institutionalizing the Indo-Pacific. Through a comparative case s…
Contesting Revisionism: China, the United States, and the Transformation of International Order
What motivates states to act the way they do? This book focuses on a particular kind of motivation inclining a state to challenge the existing norms, rules, and institutions of international order. Specifically, it addresses the concept of revisionism, which has loomed large in international relations narratives but has remained largely understudied until recently. The authors offer a critique of the existing discourse on revisionism and investig…
Political science (37 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (30 works) · China (29 works) · Law (29 works) · Politics (26 works) · Economics (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Political economy (19 works) · International relations (17 works) · Law (17 works)