Pub Date : 2022-05-20DOI: 10.1007/s41111-022-00217-5
Richard Q Turcsanyi, Kamil Liškutin, Michal Mochtak
"Chinese influence" has become a hot topic among politicians, media, and pundits. Academic studies dealing with the subject, however, generally take a much more cautious position. This paper suggests an innovative approach of studying political influence using data from the UN General Assembly voting and speech records. Utilizing the latest advancements in natural language processing (NLP), we show how to estimate, quantify, and visualise foreign policy positions using raw textual data. In Europe, it has been argued that China's growing presence and activity in Central and Eastern European states (CEE) undermines "European unity" as the region allegedly starts shifting towards Beijing. We adopt the CEE region as a case study of China's potential influence and highlight the positioning of CEE countries towards China, Germany, and the U.S. by visualizing the proximities among them over time. We find no evidence that the CEE countries are strategically pivoting towards China. We have controlled for known positions and trends of other countries from elsewhere in the world to strengthen the case for our methodological approach.
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41111-022-00217-5.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.1007/s41111-022-00215-7
K. Cai
{"title":"China’s Initiatives: A Bypassing Strategy for the Reform of Global Economic Governance","authors":"K. Cai","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00215-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-022-00215-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79301684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1007/s41111-022-00213-9
John Kirton, Alissa Xinhe Wang
How and why have China's G20 and thus global leadership changed since China hosted its first G20 summit at Hangzhou in September 2016? Since then the G20 has shaped global governance on an expanding array of subjects beyond its finance-economic core. China has consistently surpassed the other major powers in its economic growth, but also in its vulnerabilities at home. Its institutional leadership in long-established multilateral organizations has grown. The most systematic detailed account of China's leadership in G20 governance from 1999 to 2015 argued that China was always a leader in G20 governance but never led alone, always doing so with another, different G20 member, as the subject changed. New findings arise by using an expanded model of China's leadership, matching Xi Jinping's priorities at G20 summits with the summit's collective conclusions, commitments, compliance, and institutional development of global governance and examining the critical cases of climate change, biodiversity, infrastructure, and digitalization. This shows that China's G20 leadership has become more complex and cautious since 2016, even as G20 performance has generally grown. In 2022 as China institutionally leads global governance on biodiversity and thus climate change, by hosting the United Nations biodiversity summit in Kunming in April and May, it can create cooperative leadership in the G20 from all the world's great biodiversity powers of Russia and Brazil from the BRICS, Canada and the US from the G7, and Indonesia as G20 host.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1007/s41111-022-00214-8
Frangton Chiyemura, E. Gambino, Tim Zajontz
{"title":"Infrastructure and the Politics of African State Agency: Shaping the Belt and Road Initiative in East Africa","authors":"Frangton Chiyemura, E. Gambino, Tim Zajontz","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00214-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-022-00214-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"149 40 1","pages":"105-131"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74602858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-17DOI: 10.1007/s41111-021-00205-1
Guangbin Yang
{"title":"Knowledge Subjectivity and Functions of Historical Political Science","authors":"Guangbin Yang","doi":"10.1007/s41111-021-00205-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-021-00205-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"63 1","pages":"62 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74072137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-12DOI: 10.1007/s41111-021-00204-2
Guangbin Yang
{"title":"What is Historical Political Science?","authors":"Guangbin Yang","doi":"10.1007/s41111-021-00204-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-021-00204-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"519 ","pages":"1 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72437689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1007/s41111-022-00210-y
M. Beeson, C. Crawford
{"title":"Putting the BRI in Perspective: History, Hegemony and Geoeconomics","authors":"M. Beeson, C. Crawford","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00210-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-022-00210-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"45-62"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84744384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.1007/s41111-021-00202-4
Feng Ren
{"title":"The Chinese Academic Legacy of Historical Political Science","authors":"Feng Ren","doi":"10.1007/s41111-021-00202-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-021-00202-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"7 1","pages":"140 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82440270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.1007/s41111-022-00209-5
C. Wu
{"title":"The Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Its Implications for China’s Regional Policy","authors":"C. Wu","doi":"10.1007/s41111-022-00209-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-022-00209-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"61 1","pages":"63-83"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83026383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-07DOI: 10.1007/s41111-021-00207-z
Esther E. Song
{"title":"How Outsourcing Social Services to NGOs Bolsters Political Trust in China: Evidence from Shanghai","authors":"Esther E. Song","doi":"10.1007/s41111-021-00207-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-021-00207-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44455,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Political Science Review","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75113204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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