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  • Discerning states’ revisionist and status-quo orientations: Comparing China and the US

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    Author(s)
    Chan, Steve
    Hu, Weixing
    He, Kai
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    He, Kai
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    International Relations literature often refers to states’ motivations as revisionist or status-quo oriented. Such attributions are especially prevalent in discourse on the power-transition theory, suggesting that the danger of war rises when a revisionist China catches up to a status-quo US. Such attributions, however, are rarely supported by systematic evidence providing a direct comparison of Chinese and US conduct. We undertake an analysis of how these countries have behaved differently over time according to their policy pronouncements, their participation in international institutions and agreements, and their voting ...
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    International Relations literature often refers to states’ motivations as revisionist or status-quo oriented. Such attributions are especially prevalent in discourse on the power-transition theory, suggesting that the danger of war rises when a revisionist China catches up to a status-quo US. Such attributions, however, are rarely supported by systematic evidence providing a direct comparison of Chinese and US conduct. We undertake an analysis of how these countries have behaved differently over time according to their policy pronouncements, their participation in international institutions and agreements, and their voting in the United Nations. Our analysis challenges the conventional wisdom that a rising power tends to be revisionist whereas an incumbent hegemon is invariably committed to the defense of the international order.
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    Journal Title
    European Journal of International Relations
    Volume
    25
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066118804622
    Funder(s)
    ARC
    Grant identifier(s)
    FT160100355
    Copyright Statement
    Chan, S; Hu, W; He, K, Discerning states’ revisionist and status-quo orientations: Comparing China and the US, European Journal of International Relations, 2019, Vol. 25(2) 613–640. Copyright 2019 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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    Policy and administration
    Political science
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/385827
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