Preaching Self-Responsibility:The Chinese Style of Global Governance

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1007-4074.2013.04.001

Abstract

Abstract: The present study traces the cultural and political contexts within which Beijing considers global governance.They include:(1) Confucian dispositions toward non-interventionism and self-governance;(2) the socialist collectivist ethics that stress persuasion instead of unilateralism;(3) a lingering sense of inferiority arising from underdevelopment that harms self-confidence;and (4) the repugnant experiences with the United Nations (UN) and the United States that have dominated most international organizations since World War II.The consequential Chinese style of global governance is reactive rather than proactive,problemsolving rather than goal-driven,and attentive to obligation and reform more in other major countries than in failing states.That said,China could still assert global leadership by acting as a model of self-governance for other major countries and by intervening in failing states only through closed-door persuasion and exemplification as opposed to open sanctioning.

Key words: global governance, self-responsibility, chinese style

SHI Zhi-Yu, HUANG Qiong-Zhi, LI Qiao-Li, YANG Zhi-Jun. Preaching Self-Responsibility:The Chinese Style of Global Governance[J]. Journal of Jishou University（Social Sciences）, 2013, 34(4): 1-8.

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