China and the international human rights regime, 1982-2017
Dissertation, University of Oxford
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA, Port Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2021
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United Nations Human Rights Council
> International Labour Organization
> Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
> Human rights
> International cooperation
> International law and human rights
> China
> Foreign relations
> Hochschulschrift
> Menschenrecht
> Geschichte 1982-2017
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, University of Oxford "Prior to China's entry into the United Nations (UN) in 1971, there was fierce debate about its anticipated behavior and impact. Proponents of Chinese membership argued that integration into the United Nations would ultimately change or "civilize" the People's Republic of China (PRC) while skeptics countered that the "...the UN is not going to serve as a reform school for Peking," and that China was likely to attempt to alter the international system. When Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders failed to challenge the existing global order and eventually adjusted their own priorities and goals to fit into it and even benefit from the prevailing international order, its behavior alleviated concerns of destructive behavior. Yet, the larger question of China's longer-term impact on and role in international regimes remains an open question. Even if the PRC has not acted as a spoiler of the international system, are there subtle yet significant ways that it has pursued change toward international regimes? This question become more pressing and salient with China's ascendance and rising weight in global politics, especially given indications that it is shedding its earlier status quo posture and shifting to a more assertive one. As scholar Elizabeth Economy noted, in a June 2018 speech PRC President Xi Jinping "put the world on notice: China has its own ideas about how the world should be run and is prepared, as he put it, to 'lead in the reform of global governance.'" Scholars have begun grappling with"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index "This book is based on the doctoral thesis that I completed at the University of Oxford." - (Seite xi) |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 296 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781108841078 978-1-108-84107-8 9781108744836 978-1-108-74483-6 |