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dc.contributor.authorHe, Kai
dc.contributor.authorFeng, Huiyun
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-27T01:34:58Z
dc.date.available2018-07-27T01:34:58Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1755-7739
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1755773914000241
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/173046
dc.description.abstractThis paper challenges both rationalist and constructivist approaches in explaining China’s foreign policy behavior toward multilateral institutions after the Cold War. Borrowing insights from socialization theory and operational code analysis, this paper suggests a ‘superficial socialization’ argument to explain China’s pro-multilateralist diplomacy after the Cold War. Using operational code analysis to examine belief changes across three generations of Chinese leadership and on different occasions, we argue that China’s pro-multilateralist behavior is a product of ‘superficial socialization’, in which Chinese foreign policy elites change their beliefs about the outside world and regarding the future realization of their political goals in multilateral institutions. However, Chinese policy makers have not changed their instrumental beliefs regarding strategies even in multilateral institutions. China is indeed socialized through multilateral institutions, but its scope is still far from the ‘fundamental socialization’ stage when states’ interests, preferences, and even identities change.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom401
dc.relation.ispartofpageto426
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEuropean Political Science Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume7
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440808
dc.titleTranscending rationalism and constructivism: Chinese leaders' operational codes, socialization processes, and multilateralism after the Cold War
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorHe, Kai
gro.griffith.authorFeng, Huiyun


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