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Regional Security and Domestic Power Structures : = Explaining International Responses to China's Infrastructure Investments.

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Title/Author:	Regional Security and Domestic Power Structures :/
Reminder of title:	Explaining International Responses to China's Infrastructure Investments.
Author:	Iftikhar, Mohid.
Description:	1 online resource (325 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-01, Section: B.
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ISBN:	9798505585238

Regional Security and Domestic Power Structures : = Explaining International Responses to China's Infrastructure Investments.
Iftikhar, Mohid.

Regional Security and Domestic Power Structures :Explaining International Responses to China's Infrastructure Investments. - 1 online resource (325 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-01, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2020.

Includes bibliographical references

An empirical puzzle is when the core international and regional security structures are still dominated by the hegemonic power of the US, and regional entities such as the European Union, some secondary and tertiary states have responded to China's infrastructure investments particularly since the inception of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013. By employing the neoclassical realist framework, this research finds that the elite leadership perceptions of secondary/tertiary states incentivized the response to China's infrastructure investments due to arising opportunities/pressures in the regional security structure in combination with increasing domestic instability. While existing studies primarily explain secondary and tertiary states' behavior from either system or domestic level theories, this thesis proposes a theoretical framework based on neoclassical realism to systematically link system and unit-level variables. This research also mends the gap in the existing literature by providing an on-ground empirical perspective on secondary and tertiary states' foreign policies to accommodate China's outward strategies, mainly infrastructure investments.My analysis begins with the examination of regional security structure by identifying the change in capabilities or interests of the dominant power. However, at the of the causal chain, it is the FPE (perceptions) calculating the systemic stimuli and domestic political-economic conditions in devising a foreign policy outcome. In the empirical analyses, four cases are examined, namely Pakistan, Malaysia, Greece, and the Philippines, where the first two are secondary states, and the latter two are tertiary states. The overall empirical analysis is facilitated by comparative case study, process-tracing, and structured-focused comparison that allow in-depth investigation while upholding causal precision.This thesis finds that Pakistan's enthusiastic response to China was stimulated by the FPE perceptions, recognizing regional power shifts with changing American interests. Meanwhile, Greece's promotive response emanated with the FPE perceptions facing regional pressures from the Troika's harsh policies and domestic political-economic instability. In comparison, Malaysia's transitory response to China was shaped by domestic political-economic instability arising from FPE's vested interests. Lastly, the Philippines' ambivalent response to China stimulated from stable regional and domestic structures. This thesis concludes that these four cases took different paths in responding to China and vary in their interests, which is an outcome of different systemic and domestic conditions.

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Regional Security and Domestic Power Structures : = Explaining International Responses to China's Infrastructure Investments.
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520 $a 当前国际社会的一个经验性问题是，为什么在美国及欧盟等区域性力量主导国际和区域安全结构的情况下，越来越多的第二级或第三级国家开始回应中国--尤其是2013 年中国推行"一带一路"计划以来--的对外基础建设投资战略。通过采用新古典现实主义的理论框架，本研究发现这些国家对中国投资战略的回应性主要源于其外交政策执行者对其国家所在的地区安全结构以及国内政治不稳定性所带来的压力和机会的认知。尽管现有研究已从外部系统或者国内层面解释了一些国家的回应性问题，本研究提出了一个基于新古典现实主义的新解释框架，将系统性因素和国家层级的变量有机结合起来。这项研究还通过基于第二和第三级国家外交政策的实证分析更好地理解了中国基础设施投资等对外战略。本研究始于对区域安全结构的分析，尤其是区域主导实体的力量变化和利益改变。然而，在本文的因果链中，本文指出外交政策执行官对区域力量结构对比的变化以及国内政治经济条件的认知和判断是该国是否回应中国基础建设投资战略的决定性因素。在实证研究部分，本文通过比较案例研究、过程追踪，结构聚焦比较等策略，分析和比较了以巴基斯坦和马来西亚为代表的第二位区域性政治实体和以希腊和菲律宾为代表的第三位区域性力量对中国投资战略的回应性。本研究发现巴基斯坦对中国投资战略的积极回应是源于其外交政策官对由美国利益改变带来的区域力量结构改变的认知；希腊的推动性回应来自于其所面对的欧盟的苛刻政策带来的压力和其自身的国内政治经济的不稳定性。比较而言，马来西亚的善变的回应则更多的是由于既得利益集团所带来的国内政治经济的不稳定而非区域外部的实力结构变化，而菲律宾的暧昧的回应则主要是源于其外部环境和内部结构的相对稳定性。因此，本研究这四个国家代表了四种对中国对外投资战略的不同回应性，而这些回应性是不同的区域性力量对比和国内环境因素共同塑造的结果。
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