Beyond Compliance China, International Organizations, and Global Security [Hardcover]

Beyond Compliance argues that the record of China's international behavior since the 1970s indicates the long-term effectiveness of the multilateral system. Through its analysis of China's interaction with leading international organizationssuch as the Conference on Disarmament, the IMF, and the United Nations Environmental Programmeit concludes that engagement with the multilateral system is the key to the gradual socialization of rogue states. Contrasting the People's Republic of China's post-1949 alienation from the international community with its increasing compliance since it entered the United Nations in 1971 with the rules of leading international institutions, Kent explains China's changing attitude toward international institutions in terms of the most appropriate theories of state compliance. At the same time, she argues that compliance theories on their own are not sufficient to explain the complex interaction between states and the international system and develops a broader theory to encompass China's behavior. Beyond Complianceshows the landscape and dynamics of compliance and cooperation by connecting relevant theories in both IL and IR with specific case from different perspectives. This book analyzes China's interactions with leading international organizations, and concludes that international engagement is the key to the gradual socialization of rogue states.Ann Kent is a Visiting Fellow in the College of Law at the Australian National University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on China and international organizations. Kent has written a superb historical chronology of China's increasing entanglement with international organizations.Beyond Compliancewill be an invaluable resource for Asian security specialists and students of Chinese foreign policy. Kent's discussion is well written, and provides a clear and thorough overview of the detailed and complex material on which she relies. With such a complete, wel³©