POLI 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Structural Adjustment, Rome Statute Of The International Criminal Court, One-China Policy
11 Apr 2017
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Poli324 sino african relations continued lecture notes: geopolitical influence. Multilateral leadership role and status: asymmetric power relations with african states (largest bloc) Diplomatic clout and power/economic relations: soft power and peaceful rise strategies (38 chinese embassies, state visits, china in the wto, hosting 2008 olympics. China seeing africa as one region where it could extend its geopolitical influence. China can bank on african support in the un system to push through its agenda. Peaceful rise strategy and using soft power, playing within the existing rules and institutions. Agreement on basic norms of international politics: principles of non-interference, respect for state sovereignty, respect for territorial integrity, norm is not an intervention of china, china and africa embracing state sovereignty more than the west. China keeping at bay interfering international actors for domestic politics. Africa is aware of protecting their states from western interventions, whether legitimate or not: about liberal human rights.
