China's “Major Country Diplomacy”: Legitimation and Foreign Policy Change

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Foreign Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2021-02-16 DOI:10.1093/FPA/ORAB002

Stephen N Smith

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Abstract

This paper probes China's official political concept of “Major Country Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics” to argue that the boundaries of legitimate state action have been dramatically expanded since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. Building on Patrick Jackson's transactional social constructivism, I place the causal mechanism in China's new assertiveness in seminal changes to how Chinese elites legitimize their country's role in global politics. Drawing upon elite speeches, Party documents, and Chinese-language scholarship between 2013 and 2019, I show how new legitimation strategies are used to justify China's effort to proactively reform international order, engage in ideological competition with the West, and assume greater responsibility for global affairs in accordance with its elevated power and status. The boundaries of action sanctioned by this new discourse are likely to persist in the short to medium term, with implications for regional order in Asia and beyond.

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Foreign Policy Analysis INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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