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China's Participation in the International Human Rights Regime: A State Identity Perspective
Chen Dingding is a visiting assistant professor at Department of Government, Hamilton College.
* Corresponding author. Email: ddchen@hamilton.edu
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China has expanded its participation in the international human rights regime over the past 30 years, having signed important international treaties and interacted with various international human rights institutions. It is a development that raises the questions, what are China's motivations? How are China's patterns of human rights participation explainable? Is there a link between China's foreign policy and human rights foreign policy? The answers are not easily identified, but the questions in themselves have obvious significance. Certain scholars contend that as human rights represent a direct challenge to state sovereignty, China's attitude to the international human rights regime constitutes the ultimate test of the country's willingness to abide by international norms.1 An examination of alterations in China's approach to international human rights, therefore, helps us to understand the extent to which China has internalised HR norms. It is thus central to constructivist scholarship on human rights norms.
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China's Interaction with International Human Rights |
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Current Explanations of China's Human Rights Foreign Policy |
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State Identity and China's Human Rights Foreign Policy |
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