Noakes The advocacy trap

Transnational activism and state power in China
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1948-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

This book asks what happens to transnational civil society actors as a result of their engagement with China, recognising its status and influence as a rising world power. Taking an interactive and processed-based approach, it aims to explain the multiple, divergent pathways or functional forms of advocacy campaigns in China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noakes, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the superpower’s dilemma: to appease, repress, or transform transnational advocacy networks?
1 Mechanisms of persuasion: when and how are advocacy campaigns effective?
2 The power of state preferences: the ‘natural cases’ of the campaigns for Falun Gong and IPR protection
3 Reading the ‘lay of the land’: intercessory advocacy and causal process in the HIV/ AIDS treatment and death penalty abolitionist campaigns
4 State- directed advocacy: the ‘drift’ phenomenon in the ‘free Tibet’ and global warming campaigns
5 Strategic considerations, tough choices: how state preferences influence campaign forms
Conclusion: state power as reality
References

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Noakes is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and Asian Studies at the University of Auckland