Nele Noesselt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nele Noesselt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nele |
| FAMILY NAME | Noesselt |
| SIGNATURE | NOESSELT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Duisburg-Essen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4105-6652 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fragmented Global AI Governance? Chinese AI Leadership Dreams and Africa's Quest for Digital Autonomy
Given rising concerns regarding the potential role of artificial intelligence (AI) in diffusing nondemocratic governance principles, the import of AI technologies by African states has intensified scrutiny of China's expanding influence in global AI governance. This article examines whether the People's Republic of China (PRC) has effectively exported its unique AI governance principles through its Digital Silk Road and other global initiatives. …
Political Settlement and China’s Overseas Operation: The Case of Ethiopia
Political settlement analysis (PSA) has become a common approach scholars use to study socioeconomic differences among African countries. However, less attention has been given to how political settlement influences how African countries interact with their foreign counterparts. In this article, we illustrate the impact of political settlement on foreign policy by analyzing Ethiopia’s interactions with China. As one of China’s closest economic pa…
Cooperative, competitive and responsible: The visualization of China as a major power and its global roles in the CCTV documentary Daguo Waijiao
This paper contributes to our understanding of China as a major/great power by analysing visual narratives in the Chinese Central Television (CCTV) political documentary Daguo Waijao (Major Country Diplomacy, DGWJ). It develops an analytical framework to tease out visualized role claims and demonstrates how those of constructive competitor, cooperative partner, norm-maker, economic power and responsible power are conceptualized in DGWJ through it…
Chinese Contemplations on Utopian and Dystopian Democratic Governance
This article addresses the Chinese debates on utopian and dystopian modes of democracy. It opens the black box of the one-party state and delves below the surface of the People's Republic of China's official statements on “democracy” (e.g., “people's democracy,” “democratic centralism”) by focusing on the often-overlooked “democracy” contemplations within the highly fragmented Chinese academic communities. These reflections indirectly respond to …
Strategy Adjustments of the United States and the European Union vis-à-vis China: Democratic Global Power Identities and Fluid Polygonal Relations
How are the European Union and its individual member states positioning themselves within the intensifying trade war and power struggles between Washington and Beijing? Does the fact that both the United States and the EU have recently updated their strategic approach to China and continuously underline their democratic regime patterns and support for like-minded systems—contrasted with Beijing as a perceived promoter of an illiberal world order—…
Chinese Politics: National and Global Dimensions
China has undergone a rapid rise to global power status. All too often, however, China’s role in global politics is still analysed according to outdated categories and stereotypical classifications. This textbook introduces the reader to the foundations of Chinese state philosophy and political history, as well as to the one-party state’s basic institutional patterns and its recent transformations. It conducts a theory-based analysis of selected …
China’s new regional responsiveness: Passive agency and counter-agency in processes of democratic transitions in Asia
This article undertakes a critical reassessment of the “black knight” role associated with the People’s Republic of China in connection with recent processes of democratic decline in and beyond Asia. The time frame covered are the years 2013 to early 2020. In 2013, China officially launched its New Silk Road initiative, building cross-continental connectivity networks and trans-regional trade corridors. The internal stability of states along this…
A Presidential Signature Initiative: Xiong’an and Governance Modernization under Xi Jinping
This article analyzes changing patterns of leadership with a special focus on the re-centralization and re-personalization of Chinese politics as initiated under Xi Jinping. Going beyond the categorization of personalistic rule, it argues that the construction of visionary, futuristic governance ideas—as illustrated by the opening of Xiong’an New Area in 2017/2018—are part of a transformational leadership mode. Xiong’an is constructed as a test l…
City brains and smart urbanization: Regulating ‘sharing economy’ innovation in China
Starting from the officially proclaimed readjustment of the People's Republic of China's national development road map, this article engages in a theory-guided evaluation of the country's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy in connection with its smart city initiatives. The government's official quest to steer China toward a 'new mode of urbanization' has, as this article argues, facilitated the rise of the country's 'sharing economy'/'platform…
The state of the field for governance and policy innovation in China
On 31 October 2019 the CCP’s fourth plenum concluded with some reflections on governance (innovation) and the role of the Party in the PRC’s ongoing reform and modernization process. The final comm
China’s New Role in African Politics: From Non-Intervention towards Stabilization?
China's rise to global power status in recent decades has been accompanied by deepening economic relationships with Africa, with the New Silk Road's extension to Sub-Saharan Africa as the latest step, leading to much academic debate about the influence of Chinese business in the continent. However, China's engagement with African states at the political and diplomatic level has received less attention in the literature. This book investigates the…
China's New Role in African Politics: From Non-Intervention Towards Stabilization?
China¿s New Role in African Politics
Governance Change and Patterns of Continuity: Assessing China’s “New Normal
Introduction: New Normal” under Xi Jinping
Revisiting the Debate on Constructing a Theory of International Relations with Chinese Characteristics
After decades of policy learning and adoption of “Western” theories of international politics, the Chinese academic community has (re-)turned to the construction of a “Chinese” theory framework. This article examines the recent academic debates on theory with “Chinese characteristics” and sheds light on their historical and philosophical foundations. It argues that the search for a “Chinese” paradigm of international relations theory is part of C…
Relegitimizing the Chinese Party-State: “Old” Sources of Modern Chinese Party Power
This article discusses the recent renaissance of political Confucianism under the fourth and fifth generations of Chinese political leaders. By conducting a context-sensitive analysis of references to pre-modern state philosophy and political symbolism in official political statements, it argues that the seemingly “Confucian” turn in Chinese politics should rather be interpreted as a strategic element of the PRC’s ongoing legitimation campaign an…
China’s Foreign Strategy After the 18th Party Congress: Business as Usual
China’s contradictory role(s) in world politics: Decrypting China’s North Korea strategy
This paper starts from the assumption that geostrategic and security interests alone are not sufficient to explain China’s foreign policy choices. It argues that ideas about what China’s role as an actor in the increasingly globalised international system should be, and about world order in general, have a deep influence on China’s foreign policy decision-making process. Taking the North Korean issue as a case study, the paper postulates that Chi…
Microblogs and the Adaptation of the Chinese Party‐State's Governance Strategy
The Chinese party‐state is currently adapting its governance strategy. The recent debate in China on the role of microblogs in the governance process, as documented in the reports issued by Chinese research institutes and advisory bodies, illustrates the efforts being undertaken by China's political elites to integrate microblogs into their new public management strategy. Mass protests and large‐scale online criticism—voiced via microblogs—direct…
GovernanceFormen in China
Governance-Formen in China: Theorie und Praxis des Chinesischen Modells
Is There a 'Chinese School' of IR?
Alternative Weltordnungsmodelle?
Alternative Weltordnungsmodelle?: IB-Diskurse in China
Microblogs and the Adaptation of the Chinese Party‐State's Governance Strategy
The Chinese party‐state is currently adapting its governance strategy. The recent debate in China on the role of microblogs in the governance process, as documented in the reports issued by Chinese research institutes and advisory bodies, illustrates the efforts being undertaken by China's political elites to integrate microblogs into their new public management strategy. Mass protests and large‐scale online criticism—voiced via microblogs—direct…
The state of the field for governance and policy innovation in China
On 31 October 2019 the CCP’s fourth plenum concluded with some reflections on governance (innovation) and the role of the Party in the PRC’s ongoing reform and modernization process. The final comm
China’s contradictory role(s) in world politics: Decrypting China’s North Korea strategy
This paper starts from the assumption that geostrategic and security interests alone are not sufficient to explain China’s foreign policy choices. It argues that ideas about what China’s role as an actor in the increasingly globalised international system should be, and about world order in general, have a deep influence on China’s foreign policy decision-making process. Taking the North Korean issue as a case study, the paper postulates that Chi…
China’s new regional responsiveness: Passive agency and counter-agency in processes of democratic transitions in Asia
This article undertakes a critical reassessment of the “black knight” role associated with the People’s Republic of China in connection with recent processes of democratic decline in and beyond Asia. The time frame covered are the years 2013 to early 2020. In 2013, China officially launched its New Silk Road initiative, building cross-continental connectivity networks and trans-regional trade corridors. The internal stability of states along this…
City brains and smart urbanization: Regulating ‘sharing economy’ innovation in China
Starting from the officially proclaimed readjustment of the People's Republic of China's national development road map, this article engages in a theory-guided evaluation of the country's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy in connection with its smart city initiatives. The government's official quest to steer China toward a 'new mode of urbanization' has, as this article argues, facilitated the rise of the country's 'sharing economy'/'platform…
Strategy Adjustments of the United States and the European Union vis-à-vis China: Democratic Global Power Identities and Fluid Polygonal Relations
How are the European Union and its individual member states positioning themselves within the intensifying trade war and power struggles between Washington and Beijing? Does the fact that both the United States and the EU have recently updated their strategic approach to China and continuously underline their democratic regime patterns and support for like-minded systems—contrasted with Beijing as a perceived promoter of an illiberal world order—…
Governance Change and Patterns of Continuity: Assessing China’s “New Normal
China’s Foreign Strategy After the 18th Party Congress: Business as Usual
Cooperative, competitive and responsible: The visualization of China as a major power and its global roles in the CCTV documentary Daguo Waijiao
This paper contributes to our understanding of China as a major/great power by analysing visual narratives in the Chinese Central Television (CCTV) political documentary Daguo Waijao (Major Country Diplomacy, DGWJ). It develops an analytical framework to tease out visualized role claims and demonstrates how those of constructive competitor, cooperative partner, norm-maker, economic power and responsible power are conceptualized in DGWJ through it…
A Presidential Signature Initiative: Xiong’an and Governance Modernization under Xi Jinping
This article analyzes changing patterns of leadership with a special focus on the re-centralization and re-personalization of Chinese politics as initiated under Xi Jinping. Going beyond the categorization of personalistic rule, it argues that the construction of visionary, futuristic governance ideas—as illustrated by the opening of Xiong’an New Area in 2017/2018—are part of a transformational leadership mode. Xiong’an is constructed as a test l…
Introduction: New Normal” under Xi Jinping
Alternative Weltordnungsmodelle?
Alternative Weltordnungsmodelle?: IB-Diskurse in China
Alternative Weltordnungsmodelle?: IB-Diskurse in China
GovernanceFormen in China
Governance-Formen in China: Theorie und Praxis des Chinesischen Modells
Is There a 'Chinese School' of IR?
China’s contradictory role(s) in world politics: Decrypting China’s North Korea strategy
This paper starts from the assumption that geostrategic and security interests alone are not sufficient to explain China’s foreign policy choices. It argues that ideas about what China’s role as an actor in the increasingly globalised international system should be, and about world order in general, have a deep influence on China’s foreign policy decision-making process. Taking the North Korean issue as a case study, the paper postulates that Chi…
Microblogs and the Adaptation of the Chinese Party‐State's Governance Strategy
The Chinese party‐state is currently adapting its governance strategy. The recent debate in China on the role of microblogs in the governance process, as documented in the reports issued by Chinese research institutes and advisory bodies, illustrates the efforts being undertaken by China's political elites to integrate microblogs into their new public management strategy. Mass protests and large‐scale online criticism—voiced via microblogs—direct…
Revisiting the Debate on Constructing a Theory of International Relations with Chinese Characteristics
After decades of policy learning and adoption of “Western” theories of international politics, the Chinese academic community has (re-)turned to the construction of a “Chinese” theory framework. This article examines the recent academic debates on theory with “Chinese characteristics” and sheds light on their historical and philosophical foundations. It argues that the search for a “Chinese” paradigm of international relations theory is part of C…
Relegitimizing the Chinese Party-State: “Old” Sources of Modern Chinese Party Power
This article discusses the recent renaissance of political Confucianism under the fourth and fifth generations of Chinese political leaders. By conducting a context-sensitive analysis of references to pre-modern state philosophy and political symbolism in official political statements, it argues that the seemingly “Confucian” turn in Chinese politics should rather be interpreted as a strategic element of the PRC’s ongoing legitimation campaign an…
China’s Foreign Strategy After the 18th Party Congress: Business as Usual
Governance Change and Patterns of Continuity: Assessing China’s “New Normal
Introduction: New Normal” under Xi Jinping
China’s New Role in African Politics: From Non-Intervention towards Stabilization?
China's rise to global power status in recent decades has been accompanied by deepening economic relationships with Africa, with the New Silk Road's extension to Sub-Saharan Africa as the latest step, leading to much academic debate about the influence of Chinese business in the continent. However, China's engagement with African states at the political and diplomatic level has received less attention in the literature. This book investigates the…
China's New Role in African Politics: From Non-Intervention Towards Stabilization?
China¿s New Role in African Politics
A Presidential Signature Initiative: Xiong’an and Governance Modernization under Xi Jinping
This article analyzes changing patterns of leadership with a special focus on the re-centralization and re-personalization of Chinese politics as initiated under Xi Jinping. Going beyond the categorization of personalistic rule, it argues that the construction of visionary, futuristic governance ideas—as illustrated by the opening of Xiong’an New Area in 2017/2018—are part of a transformational leadership mode. Xiong’an is constructed as a test l…
City brains and smart urbanization: Regulating ‘sharing economy’ innovation in China
Starting from the officially proclaimed readjustment of the People's Republic of China's national development road map, this article engages in a theory-guided evaluation of the country's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy in connection with its smart city initiatives. The government's official quest to steer China toward a 'new mode of urbanization' has, as this article argues, facilitated the rise of the country's 'sharing economy'/'platform…
The state of the field for governance and policy innovation in China
On 31 October 2019 the CCP’s fourth plenum concluded with some reflections on governance (innovation) and the role of the Party in the PRC’s ongoing reform and modernization process. The final comm
Chinese Politics: National and Global Dimensions
China has undergone a rapid rise to global power status. All too often, however, China’s role in global politics is still analysed according to outdated categories and stereotypical classifications. This textbook introduces the reader to the foundations of Chinese state philosophy and political history, as well as to the one-party state’s basic institutional patterns and its recent transformations. It conducts a theory-based analysis of selected …
China’s new regional responsiveness: Passive agency and counter-agency in processes of democratic transitions in Asia
This article undertakes a critical reassessment of the “black knight” role associated with the People’s Republic of China in connection with recent processes of democratic decline in and beyond Asia. The time frame covered are the years 2013 to early 2020. In 2013, China officially launched its New Silk Road initiative, building cross-continental connectivity networks and trans-regional trade corridors. The internal stability of states along this…
Strategy Adjustments of the United States and the European Union vis-à-vis China: Democratic Global Power Identities and Fluid Polygonal Relations
How are the European Union and its individual member states positioning themselves within the intensifying trade war and power struggles between Washington and Beijing? Does the fact that both the United States and the EU have recently updated their strategic approach to China and continuously underline their democratic regime patterns and support for like-minded systems—contrasted with Beijing as a perceived promoter of an illiberal world order—…
Chinese Contemplations on Utopian and Dystopian Democratic Governance
This article addresses the Chinese debates on utopian and dystopian modes of democracy. It opens the black box of the one-party state and delves below the surface of the People's Republic of China's official statements on “democracy” (e.g., “people's democracy,” “democratic centralism”) by focusing on the often-overlooked “democracy” contemplations within the highly fragmented Chinese academic communities. These reflections indirectly respond to …
Political Settlement and China’s Overseas Operation: The Case of Ethiopia
Political settlement analysis (PSA) has become a common approach scholars use to study socioeconomic differences among African countries. However, less attention has been given to how political settlement influences how African countries interact with their foreign counterparts. In this article, we illustrate the impact of political settlement on foreign policy by analyzing Ethiopia’s interactions with China. As one of China’s closest economic pa…
Cooperative, competitive and responsible: The visualization of China as a major power and its global roles in the CCTV documentary Daguo Waijiao
This paper contributes to our understanding of China as a major/great power by analysing visual narratives in the Chinese Central Television (CCTV) political documentary Daguo Waijao (Major Country Diplomacy, DGWJ). It develops an analytical framework to tease out visualized role claims and demonstrates how those of constructive competitor, cooperative partner, norm-maker, economic power and responsible power are conceptualized in DGWJ through it…
Political science (19 works) · China (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 works) · Corporate governance (8 works) · Law (7 works)