Intrastate Dynamics in the Context of Hegemonic Decline: A Case Study of China’s Arms Transfer Regime

Luo, Zhifan

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“…Former presidents, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, restructured Chinese governance to boost national industry, including the military industry, as an extension of their grand strategy to counter Western dominance in the world's political economy. 41 By the mid-1970, China's main buyers of arms were North Korea and Vietnam. At the turn of the century the list had expanded greatly to places where Sino interest was rapidly consolidating, including South East and South Asia, North Africa, and Latin America.…”

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China’s weapons transfer in the Western hemisphere

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2019

Journal of Strategic Studies

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What characterizes China's weapons diplomacy and how does it unfold in the current security scenario in the Western Hemisphere? This article argues that Sino arms deliveries have arrived in the region together with the expansion of commerce and trade routes as evidenced in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. In Latin America and the Caribbean, states seek to buy weapons in light of contentious border hot spots and intrastate rampant violence. China is a willful seller and, to accomplish this, it has developed a weapons transfer policy taking advantage of the post-hegemony of the United States. The article argues that Beijing's successes could reverse due to the lack of interstate armed conflict, and the less belligerent military missions adopted by the armed forces. Yet, Chinese arms transfers in the Western Hemisphere and other parts of the developing world reveal a complex security governance regime where the military, industry, and diplomatic policy communities interact.

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China’s weapons transfer in the Western hemisphere

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2019

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“…Some observers also point to expanding arms exports as a means to support China's emerging global strategy by extending China's political, and possibly military reach in the post-2000 period (Luo 2017). Our analyses thus suggest that accounts of rising Chinese global influence will need to be less attendant to the conventionally understood, "hard" forms of military power (i.e., direct military conflict) and devote more attention to "softer" forms of military power that use military institutions to support economic and political agendas.…”

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“…From the late 1970s, the Chinese military was encouraged to engage in commercial activities to make up for reduced support from the state's budget (Mulvenon 2001). This strategy generated serious disciplinary problems in the military but boosted China's arms exports (Karmel 1997;Luo 2017).…”

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The Political-Military Foundations of China’s Global Ascendency

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2019

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In recent years China has positioned itself as a global economic leader, working through its “Belt and Road” initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), to not only expand its global economic reach, but to organize and lead global economic relations. China’s rise is largely understood in economic terms, but the history of global power dynamics suggests that such leadership is built on both economic and political-military foundations. This paper explores the structural relationship between China’s economic and political-military relationships with other states over the period 1993 to 2015. Drawing on a wide variety of data sources, we present a multi-dimensional analysis that measures the changing size of China’s economic and political-military networks, their shifting regional distribution, and the degree of coupling, or decoupling of economic ties from political-military ties. In describing these patterns, we conduct a similar analysis for the United States. This allows us to situate Chinese trends in the context of the structures of U.S. global power. Our analysis points to ways in which China’s global rise has been shaped through navigating U.S. global power. Our analysis also shows that China’s growing leadership in the global economy builds upon a set of existing political-military relationships that, while their scope and form are quite different from those that the United States built to support its hegemonic ascendency, are nevertheless critical for understanding the mechanisms by which Chinese power and influence has grown in the global political economy.

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“…До сих пор Китаю удалось расширить свои сети в регионах, которые являются маргинальными в мировом порядке под руководством США. Приведет ли нынешняя стратегия Китая к мировой гегемонии, остается неясно [56].…”

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Накануне Гегемона? Мир-Системный Подход К Перспективе Глобального Лидерства Кнр

Купряшкин¹,

университет²

2019

The BSU Bulletin

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Текст посвящен памяти основателя мир-системного анализа, классика исторической социологии, президента (1994-1998) международной социологической ассоциации Иммануила Валлерстайна. Автор статьи присоединяется к дискуссии относительно перспектив глобального лидерства Китайской Народной Республики в современной мир-экономике. Он задается вопросом: «Являемся ли мы свидетелями становления гегемонии КНР, в то время как США утрачивают лидерские позиции?» Представлены достижения Китая и возможности влиять на мировую экономику в самых разных аспектах. Кратко рассмотрены внутренние противоречия и проблемы развития КНР. Сделан обзор с акцентом на мир-системный подход, разрабатываемый Валлерстайном, некоторых идей и сюжетов относительно перспектив гегемонии Китая. В заключении автор не дает однозначного ответа на свой вопрос и предлагает новые сюжеты для аналитики. Ключевые слова: общество; Китай; США; гегемония; мир-системный анализ; глобализация; Иммануил Валлерстайн, лидерство. Для цитирования Купряшкин И. В. Накануне гегемона? Мир-системный подход к перспективе глобального лидерства КНР // Вестник Бурятского государственного университета. Философия. 2019. Вып. 4. С. 32-42.

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Intrastate Dynamics in the Context of Hegemonic Decline: A Case Study of China’s Arms Transfer Regime

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China’s weapons transfer in the Western hemisphere

China’s weapons transfer in the Western hemisphere

The Political-Military Foundations of China’s Global Ascendency

Накануне Гегемона? Мир-Системный Подход К Перспективе Глобального Лидерства Кнр

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