China's diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East

The Quest for a Great-Power Role in the Region

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4445306
AutoresYoram Evron (0000-0002-1933-4858, University of Haifa, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume31
Fascículo2
Páginas125-144
Data de publicação2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117815619664
OpenAlexW2340354370
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9

Since the early 2010s, there have been mounting calls in China to intensify its role in the Middle East. But seeing the region as highly turbulent, Beijing seems to restrain its political involvement there. So what role does China actually strive for in the Middle East? To answer this question, the article first presents China's discourse on its future role in the region; next, it analyzes China's involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Syrian civil war, focusing on three diplomatic initiatives it has made concerning these issues. The argument here is that China strives to be part of major processes in the Middle East and attempts to advance its values and interests there, but in a unique pattern of big-power involvement in the region, it tries to achieve this without intensive investment of political, economic, and military resources

Argument (complex analysis) · Beijing · China · Economics · Economy · Great power · Middle East · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts