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Cha, Chang Hoon (2002) Beyond anti-hegemonism to security regime : China's perspectives, institutions and engagement in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This research analyzes China's socialization in the international Arms Control
and Disarmament (ACD) field. Constructing the theoretical framework of "dynamic
interaction between state and institution" in order to reconcile the "problem of agend
and structure" debated in IR, the research identified the formative effects on China
during the last two decades in general and in the post-CTBT (Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty) period in particular, which engaged China in the international ACD
institutions and regimes. The socialization effects on China are recognized at the
three levels: China's norm internalization (perspective), institutionalization (domestic
institutions) and comprehensive participation in the international ACD regimes and
institutions.
The evidence based on documentary works and a few interviews suggests that the
engagement in international institutions is promoting a Chinese nexus in these
institutions, creating new Chinese interests and socializing China into building
consensus to resolving international ACD issues. The evolution and differentiation of
Chinese perspectives on ACD issues resulted into the view that stresses China's role
and responsibility within the regimes. The "new security concept" based on mutual
security and restructuring of domestic ACD institutions in the late 1990s were the
products of the socialization that "dynamic interaction" fostered. During the CTBT
talks, China showed the norm-complying and establishing attitude. China also
committed to the nuclear test ban norm by sustaining the nuclear test moratorium
since 1996. The socialization process led China to more comprehensive and
constructive participation in the international ACD institutions and regimes as China
joined the Zangger Committee and supported the FMCT (Fissile Material Cutoff
Treaty) after its accession to the CTBT.
As constructivists argue that state can reshape structure by process. China
reconstituted its interests and identities throughout the interaction with the
international ACD institutions. China's more proactive role within ACD institutions
and regimes will give it more constitutive socialization influence, but the role is
basically entrenched in "state enhancement functionalism."
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Arms control -- China, Disarmament -- China, China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002 | ||||
Official Date: | March 2002 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Politics and International Studies | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Ferdinand, Peter | ||||
Extent: | 364 p. | ||||
Language: | eng |
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