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Article: Rhetorical adaptation, normative resistance and international order-making: China’s advancement of the responsibility to protect
Title | Rhetorical adaptation, normative resistance and international order-making: China’s advancement of the responsibility to protect |
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Keywords | China international order normative resistance responsibility to protect rhetorical adaptation |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105502 |
Citation | Cooperation and Conflict, 2020, v. 55 n. 2, p. 193-215 How to Cite? |
Abstract | How do rising powers execute normative resistance to shape international order? Contrary to the existing literature, I argue that rising powers are productive agents of normative change and international order-making, through the use of rhetorical adaptation to contest pre-existing orders. Rhetorical adaptation is a strategy and set of tactics that simultaneously modifies norm content, while reducing critiques of obstructionism. To make this argument, this article traces China’s efforts as a ‘norm shaper’ regarding the responsibility to protect through the inception, institutionalization and implementation of the norm in the landmark 2011 Libya intervention. China layers traditional sovereignty norms under the responsibility to protect, focusing and narrowing the emerging norm by fortifying the primacy of the state. While I show how China resists co-option into an evolving ontological order that challenges traditional sovereignty, the article also addresses the unforeseen consequences of China’s normative efforts that ‘backfired’ to permit the use of the responsibility to protect to justify Libyan regime change. More broadly, this article speaks to rising powers as agents crafting international order, and the process of normative resistance that occurs throughout the norm life cycle. I draw from publicly available documents and semi-structured interviews with Chinese foreign policy and United Nations elites. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/290647 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.756 |
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dc.contributor.author | Richardson, CJ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-02T05:45:09Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-11-02T05:45:09Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Cooperation and Conflict, 2020, v. 55 n. 2, p. 193-215 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0010-8367 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/290647 | - |
dc.description.abstract | How do rising powers execute normative resistance to shape international order? Contrary to the existing literature, I argue that rising powers are productive agents of normative change and international order-making, through the use of rhetorical adaptation to contest pre-existing orders. Rhetorical adaptation is a strategy and set of tactics that simultaneously modifies norm content, while reducing critiques of obstructionism. To make this argument, this article traces China’s efforts as a ‘norm shaper’ regarding the responsibility to protect through the inception, institutionalization and implementation of the norm in the landmark 2011 Libya intervention. China layers traditional sovereignty norms under the responsibility to protect, focusing and narrowing the emerging norm by fortifying the primacy of the state. While I show how China resists co-option into an evolving ontological order that challenges traditional sovereignty, the article also addresses the unforeseen consequences of China’s normative efforts that ‘backfired’ to permit the use of the responsibility to protect to justify Libyan regime change. More broadly, this article speaks to rising powers as agents crafting international order, and the process of normative resistance that occurs throughout the norm life cycle. I draw from publicly available documents and semi-structured interviews with Chinese foreign policy and United Nations elites. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105502 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Cooperation and Conflict | - |
dc.rights | Author(s), Contribution Title, Journal Title (Journal Volume Number and Issue Number) pp. xx-xx. Copyright © [year] (Copyright Holder). DOI: [DOI number]. | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | international order | - |
dc.subject | normative resistance | - |
dc.subject | responsibility to protect | - |
dc.subject | rhetorical adaptation | - |
dc.title | Rhetorical adaptation, normative resistance and international order-making: China’s advancement of the responsibility to protect | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Richardson, CJ: cjfung@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Richardson, CJ=rp01785 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0010836719858118 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85067901035 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 318058 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 55 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 193 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 215 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000532864000003 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.relation.project | Reconciling Status: China, Foreign-Imposed Regime Change and Intervention at the UN Security Council | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0010-8367 | - |