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Revisiting the modes of China's revisionism: a comment on Natalizia and Termine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2023

Fred H. Lawson Open the ORCID record for Fred H. Lawson [Opens in a new window]  and
Matteo Legrenzi
Fred H. Lawson*
Affiliation:
Department of Government, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA
Matteo Legrenzi
Affiliation:
Institute for International Studies, Ca Foscari University, Venezia, Italy
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*Corresponding author. Email: f.lawson@northeastern.edu
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Abstract

Gabriele Natalizia and Lorenzo Termine lay out an innovative framework to analyze the trajectory of the current foreign policy of the People's Republic of China. As it stands, it suffers from serious conceptual ambiguities and generates a set of categories that is too large to guide empirical research. After revision, however, the framework that Natalizia and Termine propose can be deployed to elucidate Beijing's behavior in various parts of the world, most notably the Persian Gulf.

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Chinaforeign policyincremental revisionismPersian Gulf

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Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , July 2023 , pp. 249 - 259
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica

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