Kinkel, Marthijn (2018) Globalisation with Chinese Characteristics? Assessing China's rise on the basis of scholarly views, speech and critical discourse analysis. Bachelor, PPE.
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Abstract
Tapping into the debate on the rise of China and the future of the liberal world order, this paper aims to provide a novel approach to contribute to the discussion. By borrowing from Gilpin’s systemic theory (1988) and Schweller’s (2005) adaptation that the world is in a delegitimizing and deconcentrating phase, this paper aims to find whether the Xi-administration provides a rhetoric of resistance to delegitimise the hegemonic United States’ globalism perspective on globalisation. By using a comparative critical discourse analysis, this paper has compared the discourse of the Xi-administration to the core claims of globalism as defined by Steger (2005) . This paper found that there are distinct differences between the two discourses and that the rhetoric of the Xi-administration skilfully opposes the core globalist claims made by the US. The paper found narratives that could explain how China’s rhetoric helped to make the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank successful and why China now is pursuing the embracement of the liberal world order without conforming to Western norms and values. Since most evidence is not enough for making academically viable statements this paper concludes by arguing that this analytical technique should be used in further research to substantiate this paper’s initial findings.
| Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Major: | PPE |
| Supervisor: | Harst, J. van der and Waal, M.C. van der |
| Datum van aanlevering: | 17 Jun 2018 |
| Last modified: | 10 Jan 2022 13:29 |
| URI: | http://ucg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/26 |
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