Zhang Xiaotong

New Economic Statecraft

China, the United States and the European Union

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides insights on the art of governing a state and managing its external relations from a wealth-power logic. It looks at "economic statecraft" which consists of wealth production, wealth mobilization and wealth-power conversion by a state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781032397917
• ISBN-10: 1032397918
• Artikelnr.: 68100011

Autorenporträt

Zhang Xiaotong is Professor of Institute of Belt and Road Initiative & Global Governance, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He is a Researcher at Wuhan University Centre for Economic Diplomacy. He obtained a PhD in political science from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgement *
Introduction *
1 Economic Statecraft - Concepts and Theories *
1.1 Economic Statecraft as a Concept *
1.1.1 The origin of economic statecraft as a concept *
1.1.2 "Economic statecraft" versus "economic diplomacy" *
1.1.3 Analysis and critique of the concept of economic statecraft *
1.1.4 Reconstruction of the concept of economic statecraft *
1.2 The Theoretical Construct of Economic Statecraft *
1.2.1 Theoretical assumptions. *
1.2.2 The main actor of economic statecarft. *
1.2.3 Steps and methods of implementing economic statecraft *
1.2.4 Academic and theoretical standing of economic statecraft *
2 Paradigm Shifts in Economic Statecraft Over Time *
2.1 The Age of Classical Mercantilism (15th-18th centuries) *
2.2 The Age of Classical Liberalism (1846-1870) *
2.3 The Age of Imperialism (1870-1914) *
2.4 Marxism *
3 America's Economic Statecraft *
3.1 American Economic Statecraft in the Context of British Hegemony
(1775-1898) *
3.1.1 Founding of the United States of America *
3.1.2 Continental Empire (1815-1850s) *
3.1.3 Civil War and Overseas Empire (1860/65-1898) *
3.2 American Economic Statecraft in the Context of U.S. Hegemony *
3.2.1 Rise to U.S. hegemony (1898-1913) *
3.2.2 Triumph of U.S. hegemony (1914-1945) *
3.2.3 Maturing of U.S. hegemony (1945-1967/73) *
3.2.4 Decline of U.S. hegemony (1967/73-2001/08) *
3.3 U.S. Economic Statecraft in the Context of the Rise of Other Great
Powers (2008-2020) *
3.3.1 U.S. economic statecraft under president Obama (2008-2016) *
3.3.2 U.S. economic statecraft under president Trump (2016-2020) *
3.4 Paradigm Shift in U.S. Economic Statecraft: Pendulum Between Liberalism
and Mercantilism *
3.4.1 The dilemma of de-globalization *
3.4.2 The dilemma of the U.S. hegemony *
3.4.3 The dilemma of U.S. domestic politics *
4 The EU's Economic Statecraft *
4.1 Inherent Deficiencies in the EU's Implementation of Economic Statecraft
and the EU's Innovative Solutions *
4.2 Updating the EU's Economic Statecraft "Toolbox" since 2020 *
4.2.1 Promote the further instrumentalization of military and economic
power to create a "Europa Geopolitica". *
4.2.2 Promote a "sovereign Europe" and protect the "economic sovereignty"
of Europe. *
4.2.3 Promote the "geoeconomic Europe" agenda by vigorously implementing
economic diplomacy. *
4.2.4 Economic coercion is an increasingly-important tool in the EU's
economic statecraft. *
4.3 The History of EU Foreign Policy from the Perspective of Economic
Statecraft *
4.3.1 The foundation of European power (1950-1967) *
4.3.2 The "upward spiral" of European power (1967-2008) *
4.3.3 Decline of European power (Since 2008) *
5 China's Economic Statecraft under Xi Jinping *
5.1 What was president Xi's Economic Statecraft in His First Term
(2012-2017)? *
5.2 What was president Xi's Economic Statecraft in His Second Term
(2017-2022)? *
5.3 Conclusion and Future Scenarios *
6 Competing Economic Statecrafts *
6.1 The Change of "the Spirit of the Times" *
6.2 The Manifestations of Competing Economic Statecrafts and Consequences *
6.3 Competing Thoughts behind Competing Economic Statecrafts *