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’s possession of goods...
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ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/228464 2023-12-31T10:02:24+01:00 The Integration of Emerging Powers into Club Institutions: China and the Arctic Council Stephen, Matthew D. Stephen, Kathrin 2020 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228464 https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12834 eng eng Oxford: Wiley Journal: Global Policy ISSN: 1758-5899 Volume: 11 Year: 2020 Issue: S3 Pages: 51-60 Oxford: Wiley doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12834 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228464 RePEc:zbw:espost:228464 http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ddc:300 political integration international cooperation international organization newly industrializing countries China Arctic inclusion doc-type:article 2020 ftzbwkiel https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12834 2023-12-04T00:42:32Z 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 EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW) Global Policy 11 S3 51 60 |
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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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