China's Expanding Peacekeeping Role: Its Significance and the Policy Implications

Gill, Bates; Huang, Chin-Hao

doi:10.1037/e726622011-001

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“…Almost 75 per cent of China's total peacekeepers are deployed on the continent, where they have been engaged in a number of high-profile conflicts. Beijing has deployed peacekeepers in Darfur in Sudan, in the DRC, in Cô te d'Ivoire, in the Eritrea and Ethiopia border mission and to several other conflicts (Shelton 2008;Gill and Huang 2009). The increasing involvement in UN peacekeeping operations is the result of political choices made by the Chinese political leadership that have clearly aimed to build an image of the country as 'a responsible great power' that is taking a role in advancing global peace and stability, as argued by several authors (Hirono and Lateigne 2011;Richardson 2011).…”

Section: The Deployment Of Non-african Troops On the Groundmentioning

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‘Great power’ intervention in African armed conflicts

Olsen

2014

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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This paper asks why the United States (US), China and the European Union (EU) have intervened in a number of armed conflicts in Africa in the twenty-first century. Scrutiny and comparison of the motivations and interests of the three non-African actors in intervening in African crises are assumed to contribute to understanding the changing geopolitical environment and the current conditions for conflict management in Africa. The focus is not on trade and aid. The paper launches the hypothesis that the explanations why the US, China and the EU have intervened are basically identical. In spite of different evaluations of the specific crisis situations, the interventions have been about taking care of the 'national interest' of each of the three non-African actors. National interest is defined as either 'hard core' (security) or 'core' concerns (security and economic wealth).

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Section: The Deployment Of Non-african Troops On the Groundmentioning

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‘Great power’ intervention in African armed conflicts

Olsen

2014

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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“…China sees the United China is the fourteenth-largest contributor to UN peacekeeping operations; it has provided more peacekeeping troops than the United States, United Kingdom, or Russia. 66 China is also participating off the Somalia coast in the international anti-piracy operation, which is welcomed by the U.S. and European Union. In sum, China believes that it is being singled out because of generations of discrimination and exploitation by western powers and Japan.…”

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Dancing with the Dragon: U.S.-China Engagement Policy

Fong¹

2013

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“…As Deng Xiaoping (1987: 116) put it in 1985: ‘China must concentrate on economic development if it wants to become a modern, powerful, socialist country. Therefore we need a peaceful international environment and are striving to create or maintain one.’ Thus, China embarked on a policy of reassuring its neighbours, expanding its presence in UN peacekeeping operations and avoiding dangerous levels of confrontation with more powerful states (Gill and Huang, 2009; Medeiros, 2009). Correspondingly, support for nuclear non-proliferation has been weaker when it has conflicted with dominant domestic social and political norms in China.…”

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Global norms and major state behaviour: The cases of China and the United States

Foot

Walter

2012

European Journal of International Relations

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When do major states conform to or diverge from global behavioural norms? We argue that existing theories find it difficult to explain important aspects of this variation in behaviour and we offer instead a framework consisting of three explanatory variables: degree of ‘fit’ between global norms and dominant domestic-level norms; actor perceptions of procedural and substantive legitimacy; and actor perceptions of consequences for the global power hierarchy. We argue that the relative importance of these variables is contingent on the level of domestic salience of the issue area. When salience is high, the degree of normative fit is the primary driver of behavioural consistency; when salience is low, degree of fit becomes less important and the other two variables play a more powerful role in driving behavioural outcomes. We demonstrate how this framework helps to account for the behaviour of the two most important states in the global system, China and the United States, in five areas of central importance to the contemporary global order: the limited use of force, macroeconomic policy surveillance, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, climate protection and financial regulation. Our argument also explains why globalization may reduce rather than increase levels of behavioural consistency with global norms.

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China's Expanding Peacekeeping Role: Its Significance and the Policy Implications

Cited by 15 publications

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‘Great power’ intervention in African armed conflicts

‘Great power’ intervention in African armed conflicts

Dancing with the Dragon: U.S.-China Engagement Policy

Global norms and major state behaviour: The cases of China and the United States

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