The crises in the Middle East : A window of opportunity for rising China

Aoun, Elena;Kellner, Thierry
(2015) European Journal of East Asian Studies — Vol. 14, n° 2, p. 189-224 (2015)

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Focusing on the evolution of China’s interactions with Egypt and the parties to the Israeli–Palestinianconflict,thisarticleaimstounderstandthecontextsthatencourage increasedsynergybetweenMiddleEasternactorsandemergingpowers.Basedona widecollectionofdataandaconstructivistapproachthatnegatesneitherrealistnor liberal premises but rather enriches them with the role of ideas and identities, the articlepositsthattheobserveddevelopmentsareconstitutiveofareorderingofglobal balances. This reordering is seen as challenging the Western-dominated status quo ante,notthroughthedeconstructionoftheinternationalsystembutratherthrougha resistancetotheWesternmonopolyoverthelatter’sevolutionandovertheproduction andinterpretationofnorms.
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Aoun, E., & Kellner, T. (2015). The crises in the Middle East : A window of opportunity for rising China. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 14(2), 189-224. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01402003 (Original work published 2015)