Power, perception and foreign policymaking
US and EU responses to the rise of China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9904608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Summers (0000-0003-1030-9274, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 748-749 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iiy230 |
| OpenAlex | W2943687926 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Handling the rise of China has not always been at the top of American or European policy agendas, but it probably marks the most strategic interstate issue the US and the EU have faced since the end of the Cold War. To date, most of the attempts to explain or assess the extent of China's rise had the intention of informing or influencing policy-making rather than examining the conclusions policy-makers themselves have drawn. Scott Brown's Power, perception and foreign policymaking therefore offers an important addition to the literature by engaging in an in-depth study of the ways in which policy-makers have evaluated and responded to China's rise. Brown's focus on perceptions is refreshing and responds to the strands of thinking in International Relations which highlight the importance of perceptions and ideas, as opposed to material factors, in the making of foreign policy. Following an introductory chapter which sets out the approach of the book clearly and concisely, chapter two categorizes different interpretations of China's rise by policy-makers in the US and EU. It does so across three factors: military threat or military non-threat; economic threat or economic opportunity; and normative threat or political opportunity. This enables Brown to bring out the differences between the US and EU: military threat interpretations have been a regular feature of policy-thinking in the US, for example, but not in the EU, where interpretations based on economic opportunity or political opportunity have been more common than across the Atlantic
China · Development economics · Economics · Foreign policy · Great power · International relations · Normative · Perception · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |