The Silk Road Trap. How China’s Trade Ambitions Challenge Europe
The Silk Road Trap. How China’s Trade Ambitions Challenge Europe
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丝绸之路陷阱。中国的贸易野心如何挑战欧洲
DOI:
10.1080/09668136.2021.1951014
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
Wonhee Lee
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作者:
Wonhee Lee
populism and Marxism–Leninism. Following the legitimation strategies, this chapter discusses ‘defensive mechanisms’ that stabilise and perpetuate the existing structure. Chapter 5 focuses on the economic realm and examines the implications of relational economics on corruption, state intervention, ownership and comparative economic systems. Chapter 6 looks at the social realm with a special focus on social networks, regime stability and ideology. Chapter 7 arrives at the definition of the six ideal-type regimes. This chapter provides a typology with modelled trajectories of 12 postcommunist countries (p. 624), highlighting the constant dynamic movements of regimes within the triangular conceptual spaces of regimes,whichdefies a static understandingof democracy anddictatorship. A key feature of this book is that it is structured in a way that can be easily integrated into teaching. The book comes with its own dedicated website offering extensive online resources including a draft seminar that can be adopted for a course on post-communist regimes, and a 3D interactive model of post-communist regime trajectories that can be studied using desktop software and a mobile app. Graphically presented analytical models and the data used are also provided. The website also features book-launch videos which help the reader grasp the key messages of the book more intuitively. A large number of topologies, analytical models, quotes of important ideas clarifying tables and figures facilitate a variety of teaching methods in classroom settings. A minor criticism, which Henry E. Hale also touched upon in the book-launch event, is related to the assumption that the separation of three spheres of social action—political, market and communal activities—are unique to Western civilisation (p. 8). While the civilisational frame in which the book is embedded goes beyond Huntington’s schema and acknowledges the criticism of his approach (p. 8), the dichotomy between Western and Eastern values seems to contradict its own logic, which challenges Western-originated values and parameters for evaluating regimes. Overall, this comprehensive, rigorous book offers a conceptual framework and toolkits that can be used beyond post-communist countries, an example of which can be found in Masha Gessen’s study of the Trump administration in Surviving Autocracy. The textbook features of this book will appeal particularly to those who teach and study regimes and regime transformation.