China's search for "peaceful internationalism" vis-a-vis a liberal world order: Interests,national identity and foreign policy.
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In this dissertation,I employ the concept of national identity to explain Chinas foreign policy behavior during the history of the Peoples Republic of China. Specifically,I propose the concept of "peaceful internationalism" to characterize the behavioral orientation of China in the post-Mao era. Peaceful internationalism as both an idea and a policy,aims at a cross-national framework for cooperation and co-existence through non-conflictual,non-hegemonic and non-unilateral mechanisms of dispute resolution. This study argues that China pursues peaceful internationalism in a liberal international order,which is consistent with its contemporary national identity,which I term the "phoenix rising" identity. This identity has three roots: the Confucian identity,the victimhood identity and the identity of revolutionary internationalism. As an analytical category,the "phoenix rising" identity captures Chinas contemporary national identity,highlighting the rebirth and renewal of Chinas past identities in addition to Chinas experience of integrating into the world community during the post-Mao era. It shares the values of non-intervention,non-hegemony and equality among powers and serves as a framework for understanding Chinas foreign policy behavior in contemporary times. In the dissertation,according to the ideas and policies embedded in Chinas peaceful internationalism,Chinas resurgence will undermine certain special rights and privileges the U.S. enjoys. But essentially,peaceful internationalism and American-led liberal internationalism share many fundamental principles,such as the market economy,inter-state cooperation and international institutions. In order to maintain world peace and stability,the system must guarantee the survival and coexistence of states,strong or weak,in a system of sovereign states. My work provides little evidence that a rising China exploits its own unequal power over subordinate states through alliance systems or imperial systems,or that it will move to balance against the United States in the twentieth-first century.