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dc.contributor.authorHe, Kai
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-12T04:45:53Z
dc.date.available2017-10-12T04:45:53Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1750-8916
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/cjip/pov009
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/141533
dc.description.abstractThe bargaining for a new role in world politics presents a rising power with a strategic dilemma, as the new role entails a new power position in the system and a new social status in international society. China’s assertiveness in diplomacy after 2008 can be seen as a ‘role bargaining’ process between China and the outside world, such as China’s bargaining for a new role in the global financial system through the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). This article aims to examine how a rising power can bargain for the new role in a peaceful way. Based on rational bargaining theory and on role theory, we suggest four strategies whereby a rising power bargains for a new role: costly signalling, self-restraint, role-diversification, and alter-casting. Through focusing on China’s World Trade Organization accession and integration into the global economy after the Cold War, we examine the utilities and limitations of these four role-bargaining strategies for a rising power in the international system. The first two strategies aim to address the information and commitment problems concomitant with rationalism that a rising power faces in negotiating a new power position, and the last two strategies focus on how a rising power can bargain for a new social role by balancing the self’s role conception and the role expectations of others.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom371
dc.relation.ispartofpageto388
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalChinese Journal of International Politics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume8
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440808
dc.titleRole Bargaining Strategies for China’s Peaceful Rise
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.rights.copyright© 2015 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the Chinese Journal of International Politics journal following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Role Bargaining Strategies for China’s Peaceful Rise, Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 8, Issue 4, 1 December 2015, Pages 371–388 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/pov009
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gro.griffith.authorHe, Kai


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