Rethinking Think Tanks in Contemporary China

✍ Scribed by Silvia Menegazzi (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyzes how Chinese think tanks have become essential actors in today’s Chinese foreign policy and diplomatic practices. By providing an in-depth analysis of their roles, functions and transformation in the last decade, this study explains how they differ from their Western counterparts and how they have developed during Hu Jintao’s and Xi Jinping’s mandates. Think tanks are often thought to only be able to gain access to political processes within democratic contexts. This book suggests that even in the more ambiguous Chinese political environment, think tanks remain essential actors where ideas, discourses and beliefs about foreign policy and diplomacy are generated, framed and discussed vis-à-vis China’s ascent role in international affairs and global governance.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction (Silvia Menegazzi)....Pages 1-22
Think Tanks, Knowledge Regimes and the Global Agora (Silvia Menegazzi)....Pages 23-57
Think Tanks in China (Silvia Menegazzi)....Pages 59-106
Chinese Think Tanks and Economic Diplomacy (Silvia Menegazzi)....Pages 107-130
Chinese Think Tanks and Environmental Diplomacy (Silvia Menegazzi)....Pages 131-156
Conclusions: Rethinking Think Tanks in Contemporary China (Silvia Menegazzi)....Pages 157-172
Back Matter ....Pages 173-207

✦ Subjects

Asian Politics