State socialization in the Asia-Pacific: China as alternative socializer
(2016) International Studies Association - Asia-Pacific Conference — Location: Hong-Kong (25.June.2016)
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Vandamme, Dorothée 
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- Recent developments in literature highlight that legitimation is central to the process of global power distribution, bringing the relational dimension of power to the forefront: if a country wants to hold a specific role, it will need to be recognized by prominent system’s members. While role theory tells us that countries define a role for themselves and seek its validation by others (Harsnich et al. 2011), structuralist perspectives illustrate the socialization process that these countries undergo to be legitimated into their role (Thies 2013). Accordingly, the structuration of the Asia-Pacific regional subsystem is based on its members’ responses to Chinese and American leadership in terms of validation or contestation. As China asserts its power in the international system, it gains greater legitimacy to socialize other countries into their achieved or ascribed status. Drawing from sociology and social psychology, the paper seeks to answer the following question: how does China’s power process affect the socialization process of states in Asia? In order to answer, we argue that China’s emergence provides states with an alternative model of socialization, with Beijing acting as alternative dominant socializer.
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Vandamme, D. (2016). State socialization in the Asia-Pacific: China as alternative socializer. International Studies Association - Asia-Pacific Conference, Hong-Kong. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/93801