Stephen Noakes

The advocacy trap

Transnational activism and state power in China

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Produktbeschreibung

This book asks what happens to transnational civil society actors as a result of their engagement with China, recognising its status and influence as a rising world power. Taking an interactive and processed-based approach, it aims to explain the multiple, divergent pathways or functional forms of advocacy campaigns in China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781526119476
• ISBN-10: 1526119471
• Artikelnr.: 48814337

Autorenporträt

Stephen Noakes is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and Asian Studies at the University of Auckland

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the superpower's dilemma: to appease, repress, or transform
transnational advocacy networks? 1 Mechanisms of persuasion: when and how
are advocacy campaigns effective? 2 The power of state preferences: the
'natural cases' of the campaigns for Falun Gong and IPR protection 3
Reading the 'lay of the land': intercessory advocacy and causal process in
the HIV/ AIDS treatment and death penalty abolitionist campaigns 4 State-
directed advocacy: the 'drift' phenomenon in the 'free Tibet' and global
warming campaigns 5 Strategic considerations, tough choices: how state
preferences influence campaign forms Conclusion: state power as reality
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