%0 Journal Article
%T Identity Politics in the Post-American World Order: ¡®The Great America¡¯ versus New China Identity
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%D 2018
%X The realist paradigm in International Relations Theory argues that the recent rise of China as an economic power would push China to offensive politics as a ¡®threat¡¯ to other states. Specifically, to obstruct the rise of China as a regional hegemon the USA follows a containment strategy towards Beijing. Contrary to that, in the Chinese Studies it is claimed that peace and harmony policy in China¡¯s foreign policy has been maintained since the Imperial period and it is highlighted that ¡®the new China¡¯ does not pursue great power politics. With a purpose of testing these rival argumentations, this study looks at the USA¡¯s China threat perception from a perspectives of post-structuralism. For this aim, first it searches the historical evolution of China¡¯s foreign policy and observes in which direction China has been rising in the 21th century. On doing so, this research exposes two findings: Despite China has a traditional pacifist foreign policy discourse, the USA¡¯s perception of new Chinese identity as a ¡®threat¡¯ serves to its redefinition and empowerment of its place in the world in the 21th century; this perception of the USA paradoxically makes new China follow an ¡®active defence strategy¡¯ which would orient its foreign policy to offensive politics
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/usb/issue/40080/476898