China's Challenge to Liberal Norms The Durability of International O
Is China challenging liberal norms or being socialised to them? This book argues that China is incrementally pushing for re-interpretation of liberal norms, but, the result is that rather than being illiberal, this reinterpretation produces norms that are
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C A T H E R I N E JONE S
China’s Challenge to Liberal Norms
Catherine Jones
China’s Challenge to Liberal Norms The Durability of International Order
Catherine Jones University of Warwick Coventry, UK
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Acknowledgements
I am acutely aware of the limits of this text and the places where the contents have been edited or curtailed. All the limitations and omissions or inadvertent errors of the contents remain with me. In particular, in the manuscript the deliberate intention was to focus on the relationship of the empirical materials to the conceptual framework. Hence, there are many places where a greater discussion of the literature could have been possible; however, it would have detracted from the central contribution of the work and the argument. I hope that the deficiencies or silences in this work only serve to demonstrate space for more research and contributions in this area. This project started life in 2009, and since this time, numerous people, places and institutions have enabled the completion of this book. Above all, my thanks go to the Leverhulme Trust who—through the ‘Liberal Way of War’ programme—supported the research that enable
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