Is China becoming more powerful?

9 November 2014

Is China really becoming more powerful? China's GDP is growing and it is spending more on its military, but is China's international influence also growing?

This collection of papers, edited by UI's Linus Hagström and Björn Jerdén and published inAsian Perspective, suggests that the notion of Chinese power often is exaggerated.

Introduction: East Asia's Power Shift: The Flaws and Hazards of the Debate and How to Avoid Them by Linus Hagström UI Head of East Asia programme, and Björn Jerdén, UI research associate 

Is China's Discursive Power Increasing? The "Power of the Past" in Sino-Japanese Relations by Karl Gustafsson, UI research fellow

Rethinking Chinese Power: A Conceptual Corrective to the "Power Shift" Narrative
by Chengxin Pan is senior lecturer in international relations and a member of the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia

Revisiting Japan's Cultural Diplomacy: A Critique of the Agent-Level Approach to Japan's Soft Power by Alexander Bukh, senior lecturer in international relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Overestimating the "Power Shift?: The US Role in the Failure of the Democratic Party of Japan's "Asia Pivot" by Paul O'Shea, assistant professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

So What About a Power Shift? Caveat Emptor by Steve Chan, Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado, Boulder

The articles were initially presented at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs' 75th Anniversary conference, August 2013. 

 

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