The Integration of Emerging Powers into Club Institutions: China and the Arctic Council
How do emerging powers gain inclusion into club institutions, i.e. institutions with selective memberships that deliberately seek to avoid universality? We present a framework that highlights three factors: an emerging power's 'fit' to the club's logic of exclusivity, the club...
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ftssoar:oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/76638 2023-05-15T14:30:45+02:00 The Integration of Emerging Powers into Club Institutions: China and the Arctic Council Stephen, Matthew D. Stephen, Kathrin 2022-01-04T11:32:24Z https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/76638 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12834 unknown GBR 1758-5899 https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/76638 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12834 Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Global Policy 11 Suppl. 3 51-60 Internationale Beziehungen International relations Arctic Entwicklungspolitik International Politics Foreign Affairs Development Policy Nordpolargebiet China internationale Zusammenarbeit internationale Organisation Schwellenland politische Integration internationale Politik international cooperation international organization newly industrializing countries political integration Zeitschriftenartikel journal article 2022 ftssoar https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12834 2022-12-13T22:06:35Z How do emerging powers gain inclusion into club institutions, i.e. institutions with selective memberships that deliberately seek to avoid universality? We present a framework that highlights three factors: an emerging power's 'fit' to the club's logic of exclusivity, the club's possession of goods of value to the emerging power, and the ability of the emerging power to incentivize the club to open up via different strategies. We hypothesize that, due to the selection effect of choosing to seek inclusion in a club, emerging powers will seek integration using integrative strategies such as co‐optation and persuasion. We apply the framework to analyse the case of China's inclusion - along with several other countries - as a State Observer in the Arctic Council in 2013. While China did use largely integrative strategies, the political background to the decision to open up to new observers reveals latent features of power bargaining. Moreover, it is unclear whether observer status has been sufficient to satisfy China. The case highlights the significance of observers in international organizations as well as the importance of clubs’ logics of exclusivity to their ability to adapt to international power shifts. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Council Arctic Nordpol* SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository Arctic Global Policy 11 S3 51 60 |
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Internationale Beziehungen International relations Arctic Entwicklungspolitik International Politics Foreign Affairs Development Policy Nordpolargebiet China internationale Zusammenarbeit internationale Organisation Schwellenland politische Integration internationale Politik international cooperation international organization newly industrializing countries political integration Stephen, Matthew D. Stephen, Kathrin The Integration of Emerging Powers into Club Institutions: China and the Arctic Council |
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How do emerging powers gain inclusion into club institutions, i.e. institutions with selective memberships that deliberately seek to avoid universality? We present a framework that highlights three factors: an emerging power's 'fit' to the club's logic of exclusivity, the club's possession of goods of value to the emerging power, and the ability of the emerging power to incentivize the club to open up via different strategies. We hypothesize that, due to the selection effect of choosing to seek inclusion in a club, emerging powers will seek integration using integrative strategies such as co‐optation and persuasion. We apply the framework to analyse the case of China's inclusion - along with several other countries - as a State Observer in the Arctic Council in 2013. While China did use largely integrative strategies, the political background to the decision to open up to new observers reveals latent features of power bargaining. Moreover, it is unclear whether observer status has been sufficient to satisfy China. The case highlights the significance of observers in international organizations as well as the importance of clubs’ logics of exclusivity to their ability to adapt to international power shifts. |
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The Integration of Emerging Powers into Club Institutions: China and the Arctic Council |
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The Integration of Emerging Powers into Club Institutions: China and the Arctic Council |
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The Integration of Emerging Powers into Club Institutions: China and the Arctic Council |
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