Chinese Journal of International Relations Special Issue: "Dialogue With the Chinese School of International Relations Theory" (Peng Lu, Xiao Ren, Toni Erskine, and Stefano Guzzini (eds))

 

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 I am delighted to pass along notice of the publication of a very interesting set of essays on an emerging school of Chinese International Relations.  It is edited by 

Our “Dialogue with the Chinese School of IR theory” is published by Chinese Journal of International Relations (CJIP). Papers from leading Chinese IR theorists (Qin Yaqing, Yan Xuetong, Shih Chi-yu and Ren Xiao) and Western theorists (Peter Katzenstein, Barry Buzan, Toni Erskine, Stefano Guzzini, Justin Rosenberg, Beate Jahn) are free for download. You may find these papers in CJIP Reader 2024 https://academic.oup.com/cjip/pages/dialogue-with-chinese-school-ir-theory

Links to the articles along with their abstracts follow below. 

 

Dialogue with the Chinese School of IR Theory: A CJIP Reader

Guest Editors:

Peng Lu, Xiao Ren, Toni Erskine, and Stefano Guzzini

The Chinese School of IR Theory: Ignored Process, Controversial Progress, and Uncertain Prospects

Peng Lu

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 128–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae007

This article reviews issues relevant to the Chinese School of International Relations (IR) theory. After 20 or more years of relentless effort, the Chinese School has achieved concrete breakthroughs, evident in the emergence of Relational Theory, Moral Realism, and Symbiosis...

Images of a Statist Ethic in “Western” and Chinese IR Theory: Locating (and Deciphering) the “Moral Realism” of the Tsinghua Approach

Toni Erskine, Liane Hartnett

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 153–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae008

In this article, we identify—and interrogate—one thematic thread that is intricately woven through prominent positions within classical realism, normative international relations (IR) theory, and what Zhang Feng (2012) has called Chinese IR’s “Tsinghua approach.” This thread is the often-controversial notion...

Upgrading the Paradigm of Leadership Analysis

Yan Xuetong

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 174–186, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae009

Leadership analysis has been a traditional paradigm for studying international relations. The theory of moral realism improves this paradigm’s scientific rigour when explaining the relationship between the leadership of major powers and system-level international changes. Methodologically, moral realism uses morality...

Relationalism(s) Unpacked: Engaging Yaqing Qin’s Theory of World Politics

Stefano Guzzini

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 187–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae010

In a spirit of dialogue, this article engages Yaqing Qin’s relational theory of world politics in a conversation by trying to relate it to Western theoretical partners outside of his (mainly Anglo-American) individualist and rationalist focus. The central piece of...

The Zhongyong Dialectic: A Bridge into the Relational World

Yaqing Qin

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 206–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae011

Three tensions are said to exist in my relational theory, i.e. between ontology and behavior, between structure and process, and between substance and procedure. Underlying these tensions is a crucial question: How to identify the subject and object and understand...

Is There a Chinese School of IR Theory?

Peter J Katzenstein

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2024, Pages 222–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae012

Is there a Chinese School of International Relations (IR) Theory? My answer to this question is ambivalent. Although a Chinese school of IR theory does not exist in the singular, it does exist in the plural. If “birds of a...

A Relational Analysis of Exceptionalism: Connecting Liberalism with Confucian Multilateralism and Emotion

Chih-yu Shih, Jason Kuo

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2024, Pages 242–261, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae013

The literature on exceptionalism is preoccupied with its distinctive national sources and resultantly differing styles. Exceptionalism has thus become almost synonymous with culture and identity, rather than international relations (IRs). The paper instead argues that exceptionalism reveals a relational identity...

Why there is Now Non-Western International Relations Theory

Ren Xiao

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2024, Pages 262–276, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae014

Over the past two decades, Chinese international relations scholars have embarked on a journey of innovative thinking in world politics. The endeavour has borne theoretical fruits that both complement existing paradigms and potentially constitute a distinct “Chinese school” of international...

Forum: Debating the Chinese School(s) of IR Theory

Peng Lu, Xiao Ren, Toni Erskine, Stefano Guzzini, Barry Buzan, Beate Jahn, Justin Rosenberg

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2024, Pages 277–305, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae015

The papers in this Forum, along with eight papers consecutively published in previous and current issues of this journal, constitute a special symposium, which engages in a dialogue between the “Chinese School” of International Relations (IR) theory and “Western” IR...

The Use and Misuse of East Asian History in IR Theorizing

Zheng Chen

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2024, Pages 306–322, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae016

The past two decades have witnessed a wave of research into the history of East Asian international relations (IR). Scholars seek to broaden the historical frames of reference in IR for both theory testing and theory generation. The article reviews...