Two new issues of Copenhagen Discussion Papers

Copenhagen Discussion Papers:

Vol. 28, July 2009:

Xin Li, Verner Worm

Building China's soft power for a peaceful rise

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Vol. 29, July 2009:

Xin Li, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Michael Jacobsen

Redefining Beijing Consensus: Ten general principles

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Abstracts:

 28-Xin Li, Verner Worm - Building China's soft power for a peaceful rise:

With China's rapid economic progress and steady increase in its international influence, China has gradually embarked on the soft power idea and has made developing its soft power as its national strategy. We argue that China's soft power strategy is in accordance to Chinese Confucian culture and political value and fits well with its grand strategy of peaceful rise. Based on existing conceptualizations of soft power, we expanded the sources of soft power to six pillars: cultural attractiveness, political values, development model, international institutions, international image, and economic temptation. We also identified three channels for wielding soft power: formal, economic, and cultural diplomacies. Putting all the basics together, we present an integrative model of soft power. Accordingly, we analyze the sources and limits of China's soft power and suggest how to improve it.

29-Xin Li, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Michael Jacobsen - Redefining Beijing Consensus: Ten general principles:

We argue, due to the conspicuous failure of Washington Consensus-guided reforms in most part of the developing world in 1990s and the outbreak of the current global financial crisis, Washington Consensus, as a general term of the neoliberal free market economic thinking, has been withering. In the meantime, Chinese economic model has gain wide recognition and praise worldwide. Joshua C. Ramo coined the term of Beijing Consensus as an alternative approach to economic development for developing nations. There has been hot debate on the notion of Beijing Consensus. We argue even though there are some problems in Ramo's original definition of Beijing Consensus, we should not reject this notion altogether. Instead, we should try to come up with better conceptualizations of this term. In this paper, we sum up ten general principles of the Chinese development model as our new definition of the Beijing Consensus.

The Copenhagen Discussion Papers Series is a research paper series on Asia published by the Asia Research Centre. The series presents reports and work in progress by researchers at ARC, affiliates and guest researchers and it is available both in paper and as online version.

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