Russian, US and Chinese Revisionism: Bridging Domestic and Great Power Politics

Abstract

The essay investigates the revisionism of great powers, namely Russia, the United States and China. We study intermestic configurations, linking domestic populism, the presidential power of national leaders as expressed by their strategic narratives, and each state's international revisionist posture. In each case, we identify a different style of revisionism: Russia's 'guerrilla' great power revisionism, the Trumpian anti-doctrine revisionism, and China's revisionist quest for power and status. We argue that the different revisionist trajectories of these great powers contribute to the multifaceted and uneven unmaking of global liberal internationalism and liberal norms rather than to a coherent revisionist challenge.

The Hong Kong National Security Law and the Changing Character of Rule in the China–Hong Kong Relationship

“…At that time, the insufficient information the central authority received was arguably among the reasons for replacing top bureaucrats at the institutions like CGLO and creating a crisis centre at the Bauhinia Villa on the mainland to streamline information and decision-making channels (Zhai, Pomfret, and Kirton 2019; cf. Karmazin and Hynek 2020; Petersson Ivre and Lee 2020).…”