China, the UN, and human protection : beliefs, power, image

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China, the UN, and human protection : beliefs, power, image

Title remainder

beliefs, power, image

Statement of responsibility

Rosemary Foot

Creator

• Foot, Rosemary, 1948-

Subject

• China -- Foreign relations -- 1949-
• Human rights
• United Nations
• World politics -- 1945-1989
• World politics -- 1989-

Language

eng

Summary

This study focuses directly on Beijing's involvement in one of the most contentious areas of UN activity - human protection - contentious because the norm of human protection tips the balance away from the UN's Westphalian state-based profile, towards the provision of greater protection for the security of individuals and their individual liberties. The argument that follows shows that, as an ever-more crucial actor within the United Nations, Beijing's rhetoric and some of its practices are playing an increasingly important role in determining how this norm is articulated and interpreted. In some cases, the PRC is also influencing how these ideas of human protection are implemented. At stake in the questions this book tackles is both how we understand the PRC as a participant in shaping global order, and the future of some of the core norms which constitute that order.--

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Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Target audience

specialized