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The Chinese Peacebuilding Script: A Pragmatic Contestation of the Liberal International Order

SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 19

SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 19

Albert Cullell Cano

Chinese peacebuilding has become crucial considering China’s dismissal of its low-key foreign policy in favour of a more assertive stance since President Xi’s accession to power. This study critically builds on the scholarship of SCRIPTS and undertakes a within-case analysis of China’s peacebuilding in Myanmar from 2012 to 2021, examining its policies and frames. Thus, the Chinese peacebuilding script is reconstructed to be compared with the liberal script and gauge typology and degree of contestation. By applying qualitative content and discourse analyses on archival data from the Chinese government and the Communist Party of China, the study finds that the Chinese peacebuilding script, contrary to expectations, qualifies as neither internal nor external contestation of the liberal script but rather as in-between pragmatic contestation – for China both enforces and contests the liberal international order in negotiating a more influential position amidst an in- creasingly multipolar world.

Title
The Chinese Peacebuilding Script: A Pragmatic Contestation of the Liberal International Order
Author
Albert Cullell Cano
Citation
Cullell Cano, Albert 2022: The Chinese Peacebuilding Script: A Pragmatic Contestation of the Liberal International Order, SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 19, Berlin: Cluster of Excellence 2055 “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)".
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