POLS 396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, Sui Generis, Composite Index Of National Capability
21 Sep 2013
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Pols396 readings week 3 part 3 (the chinese conception of national interests in international relations) 1990s: china criticized for its narrow minded, backwards view especially on issues concerning human rights and irredentist claims, renewed emphasis on the 5 principles of peaceful co-existence. 1) mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty. These five principles constitute the basis for an anarchy of mutual recognition and therefore tend to promote egoistic over collective conceptions of interest. Chinese definition of national interests is not a fixed and immutable attribute, rather it is contested. It is argued that the chinese conception of national interests should not be considered in terms of two mutually exclusive categories-realpolitik values and liberal values. Instead it should be understood in terms of a spectrum. Chinese realists subscribe to the state centric notion. Post maoist era: the invoking of national interest (instead of class interest) is a result against the revolutionary diplomacy and what the chinese authors call the ideologization besetting.
