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The Development of Chinese IR Theory and the 21st Century International Order: The Overlapping Dynamics of Theory and Power

  • Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
  • Abbr : JAPS
  • 2024, 31(1), pp.5-50
  • DOI : 10.18107/japs.2024.31.1.001
  • Publisher : Institute of Global Affairs
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : February 19, 2024
  • Accepted : March 21, 2023
  • Published : March 30, 2024

Yoo, Heebok 1

1성신여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article aims to analyze China’s conception of the 21st century international order and its feasibility through examination of the perspectives of China’s major schools of international relations theory and verification through strategy. To this end, this article examines the feasibility of China’s vision of international order through the overlapping of theories and strategies by comparing and analyzing the arguments of China’s major schools of international relations and China’s foreign strategies in the 2011 White Paper on China’s Peaceful Development and the 2023 White Paper on Global Community of Shared Future. It then examines the feasibility of China’s envisioned international order through an analysis of the United States’ perceptions of China and the 21st-century international order, the founder and supporter of the existing international order. The result of the study finds that Chinese international relations theories commonly criticize the problems of the current international order through theories based on China’s own political culture, believing that China should play a constructive role in reforming the existing international order. The two white papers also criticize the problems of the existing international relations theory and governance ideology, and try to reform them based on China’s unique cultural concepts and experiences. However, it is unlikely that the reform of the international order in the 21st century will be carried out in accordance with China’s international relations theory and strategy, given the limitations of China’s international relations theory itself and the strategy of the United States, the dominant power that has established and maintained the existing international order.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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