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Hostile Forces - How the Chinese Communist Party Resists International Pressure on Human Rights (Hardcover)
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Hostile Forces - How the Chinese Communist Party Resists International Pressure on Human Rights (Hardcover)
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How do authoritarian regimes deal with pressure from the
international community? China's leaders have been subject to
decades of international attention, condemnation, resolutions,
boycotts, and sanctions over their treatment of human rights. We
assume that hearing about all this pressure will make the public
more concerned about human rights, and so regimes like the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) should do what they can to prevent this from
happening. In Hostile Forces, Jamie Gruffydd-Jones argues that
while international pressure may indeed embarrass authoritarian
leaders on the international stage, it may, in fact, benefit them
at home. The targets of human rights pressure, regimes like the
Communist Party, are not merely passive recipients, but actors who
can proactively shape and deploy that pressure for their own
advantage. Taking us through an exploration of the history of the
Communist Party's reactions to foreign pressure, from condemnation
of Mao's crackdowns in Tibet to outrage at the outbreak of
COVID-19, analysis of a novel database drawn from state media
archives, as well as multiple survey experiments and hundreds of
interviews, Gruffydd-Jones shows that the CCP uses the most
'hostile' pressure strategically - and successfully - to push
citizens to view human rights in terms of international geopolitics
rather than domestic injustice, and reduce their support for
change. The book shines a light on how regimes have learnt to
manage, manipulate, and resist foreign pressure on their human
rights, and illustrates how support for authoritarian and
nationalist policies might grow in the face of a liberal
international system.
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