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The view that China has become increasingly assertive under President Xi Jinping is now a common trope in academic and media discourse. However, until the end of Xi Jinping’s first term in March 2018, China had been relatively restrained in its use of coercive economic measures. This is puzzling given the conventional belief among scholars and practitioners that sanctions are a middle ground between diplomatic and military/paramilitary action.
Using a wide range of methods and data – including in-depth interviews with 76 current and former politicians, policy-makers, diplomats, and commercial actors across 12 countries and 16 cities – Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics: Rhetoric and Restraint in China’s Diplomacy examines the ways in which China had employed economic sanctions to further its political objectives, and the factors explaining China’s behaviour. This book provides a systematic investigation into the ways in which Chinese decisionmakers approached sanctions both at the United Nations Security Council and unilaterally, and shows how China’s longstanding sanctions rhetoric has had a constraining effect on its behaviour, resulting in its inability to employ sanctions in complete alignment with its immediate interests.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half-Title Page, Series Page, Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Table of Contents
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  1. List of Abbreviations
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. 1. The Puzzle of Chinese Sanctions
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  1. 2. On Sanctions and China
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  1. 3. When Does Talk Become Costly?
  2. pp. 51-84
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  1. 4. Stigmatising Sanctions and China's Counter-Stigmatisation
  2. pp. 85-136
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  1. 5. China and United Nations Security Council Sanctions
  2. pp. 137-190
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  1. 6. China’s Unilateral Sanctions: Eight Classic Cases Revisited
  2. pp. 191-222
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  1. 7. Demystifying China's Sanctions Behaviour
  2. pp. 223-258
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  1. 8. China's Sanctions Dilemma
  2. pp. 259-280
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  1. Appendix A: United Nations Security Council Meeting Records: Coverage of Speeches by Chinese Representatives, 1997-2016
  2. pp. 281-286
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  1. Appendix B: Complete List of Proposed United Nations Security Council Sanctions-Related Resolutions, 1971-2016
  2. pp. 287-308
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  1. Appendix C: China's Material Interests with Targeted Sanctions Regimes
  2. pp. 309-324
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  1. Bibliography
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  1. Index
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