Green Soft Power? Checking in on China as a Responsible Stakeholder

• Authors: Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska , Kerry Longhurst , Katarzyna Skiert-Andrzejuk

Abstracts

EN

By assuming a proactive role in international environmental regimes and extending the ‘green’ dimensions of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China has been seeking to promote itself as a leader and responsible stakeholder in global environmental governance. This article examines this development concerning the notion of China’s ‘soft power’ and, more specifically, the notion of ‘green soft power’ – which aims to bridge the traditional concept of soft power with a state’s behavior on environmental and climate issues. China presents an interesting case since it has accrued a considerable amount of green soft power through its multilateral environmental diplomacy practiced at the Conferences of the Parties (COPs), the high-profile annual United Nations Climate Change Conferences, but its patchy deployment of environmental standards in the bilateral engagements under the BRI highlights the contradictions in referring to China as a green soft power. With these ideas in mind, this article holds that in the search to understand the evolving nature of China’s responsible stakeholder role, attention should be given to exploring the notion of green soft power.

Keywords

EN

China; soft power; foreign policy; BRI; environmental diplomacy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2024
• Issue: 1(53)
• Pages: 17-33

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska

• Collegium Civitas (Poland)

• https://orcid.org/000000021677986X

author

Kerry Longhurst

• Collegium Civitas (Poland)

• https://orcid.org/0000000247102640

author

Katarzyna Skiert-Andrzejuk

• Collegium Civitas (Poland)

• https://orcid.org/0000000344515092

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy202402

Biblioteka Nauki

31343174