Evolutionary China's Foreign Policy Identity and The Strategy of Institution Making Order In The Post-Mao Period

Document Type : Original Article

Author

• Amir Abbasi Khoshkar

PhD International Relations, University of Tehran,Tehra , [e-mail]

https://doi.org/10.22067/irlip.2022.71829.1132

Abstract

China's foreign policy dramatically changed in the post-Mao era as Mao's ideological approach was replaced by an ambition for economic development gaining a share of the world economy. In the meantime, China has resorted to multilateral organizations and institutions to make an impact on international politics. The Chinese elite’s new strategic perception contributed to this shift. This article investigates the background based on which Chinese foreign policy shifted from ideological confrontation to participatory development as well as the role of multilateral organizations and institutions in this process. This research argues that multilateral organizations and institutions are very important in the post-Mao Chinese foreign participatory developmental policy. China's foreign policy will first move towards institutional participation and later towards institutional balancing
 

Keywords

• post-Mao Foreign Policy Elites
• Economic Developmentalism
• Perceptual and Conceptual Complexity
• Foreign Policy Identity
• Role-Making
• Multilateral Ordering