Hostile Forces
How the Chinese Communist Party Resists International Pressure on Human Rights
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 October 2022
- ISBN 9780197643204
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 234x154x18 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 253
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Short description:
Hostile Forces shines a light on how China has learned to manage, manipulate, and resist foreign pressure on human rights, and illustrates how support for authoritarian and nationalist policies can actually grow in response to such critiques from powers within the liberal international system.
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How do authoritarian regimes deal with pressure from the international community? China's leaders have been subject to decades of international attention, condemnation, resolutions, boycotts, and sanctions over their treatment of human rights. We assume that hearing about all this pressure will make the public more concerned about human rights, and so regimes like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should do what they can to prevent this from happening. In Hostile Forces, Jamie Gruffydd-Jones argues that while international pressure may indeed embarrass authoritarian leaders on the international stage, it may, in fact, benefit them at home. The targets of human rights pressure, regimes like the Communist Party, are not merely passive recipients, but actors who can proactively shape and deploy that pressure for their own advantage.
Taking us through an exploration of the history of the Communist Party's reactions to foreign pressure, from condemnation of Mao's crackdowns in Tibet to outrage at the outbreak of COVID-19, analysis of a novel database drawn from state media archives, as well as multiple survey experiments and hundreds of interviews, Gruffydd-Jones shows that the CCP uses the most 'hostile' pressure strategically - and successfully - to push citizens to view human rights in terms of international geopolitics rather than domestic injustice, and reduce their support for change. The book shines a light on how regimes have learnt to manage, manipulate, and resist foreign pressure on their human rights, and illustrates how support for authoritarian and nationalist policies might grow in the face of a liberal international system.
In this provocative new study, Jamie Gruffydd-Jones argues that international criticism of human rights violations by the Chinese government have not worked and are unlikely to without a fundamental change of strategy. Everyone interested in the promotion of human rights, in China or elsewhere, needs to read this book and heed its advice.
Table of Contents:
Part I: The Argument
Introduction
A Theory of Responses to Human Rights Pressure
Part II: The Regime
Pressure as Propaganda: From Mao to Hu
Hostile Human Rights: Tibet, Hong Kong, and Beyond
When does Pressure become Propaganda?
Part III: The Citizens
Experimental Activism
People on the Street
Pressure in Real Time
Part IV: The Implications
Implications for China and Beyond
Notes
Appendices
Bibliography
