| ID | 143680 |
| Title Proper | Role bargaining strategies for China’s peaceful rise |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | He, Kai x ; Walker, Stephen |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | Chinese Journal of International Politics Vol. 8, No.4; Winter 2015: p.371-388 |
| Journal Source | Chinese Journal of International Politics Vol: 8 No 4 |
| Key Words | World Politics ; China ; Strategic Dilemma ; Peaceful Rise ; Bargaining Strategies |