Soft Power and Global Governance with Chinese Characteristics

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ID12907186
AutoresTimo Kivimaki (0000-0002-1735-9170, University of Helsinki, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume7
Fascículo4
Páginas421-447
Data de publicação2014-06-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Chinese Journal of International Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1750-8916 • E-ISSN: 1750-8924
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/cjip/pou033
OpenAlexW2165699942
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas14

Some leading American theorists of China's global role, such as Shambaugh, Nye, Ikenberry, and many others have claimed that China has not managed to develop its soft/attractive power. 1 Since China has not managed to attract the world to its culture, values, and ways, it has not found its place in global governance.Instead, China has become a power that punches below its weight.This article focuses on the empirical generalization, proposed by these American scholars, that China's soft power has failed and that this has resulted in that country's incomplete global engagement.The aim of this article is to show that this generalization is false by first questioning whether China really has failed in its soft power, and, secondly, by showing that the measuring sticks used to prove the incompleteness of China's global role are themselves flawed.Opinion polls that measure China's image in the world show that while China's popularity was on the rise in the first decade of the new millennium, its star began to decline after that. 2 Even when China did better at promoting its image, its popularity was of limited use, as its soft power never translated into foreign-policy power, according to Gill and Huang. 3 The evidence for China's soft-1

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