What role do nationalism and popular protest play in China's foreign relations? Chinese authorities permitted anti-American demonstrations in 1999 but repressed them in 2001 during two crises in U.S.-China relations. Anti-Japanese protests were tolerated in 1985, 2005, and 2012 but banned in 1990 and 1996. Protests over Taiwan, the issue of greatest concern to Chinese nationalists, have never been allowed. To explain this variation, Powerful Patriots identifies the diplomatic as well as domestic factors that drive protest management in authoritarian states. Because nationalist protests are costly to repress and may turn against the government, allowing protests demonstrates resolve and makes compromise more costly in diplomatic relations. Repressing protests, by contrast, sends a credible signal of reassurance, facilitating diplomatic flexibility. Powerful Patriots traces China's management of dozens of nationalist protests and their consequences between 1985 and 2012.
Jessica Chen Weiss is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. The dissertation on which this book is based won the 2009 American Political Science Association Helen Dwight Reid Award. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego and founded FACES, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford, while an undergraduate at Stanford University.
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一本读intro和conclusion觉得结论没什么问题,读完中间章节论证反而觉得值得商榷的书。说国家允许民族主义示威以展示决心,而压制示威以展示友好,本来是很intuitive的结论,然而每个事例几乎都是例外。于是作者发明出各种变量来解释为什么这些事例都成了例外,如对方认为示威是国家煽动,或政府通过其他手段在其他方面施压等。然而章节内理论化却又十分微弱,几乎成了时间线整理,遑论整理出规律。四到八章全部关于中日关系,只有第三章很突兀地写了中美关系,结构上莫名其妙,也让人怀疑其external validity。研究领域IR,理论推导注重上层决策,第一手资料却是从基层示威者得来,全书无一处对决策制定者的采访,堪称奇异。最大收获是确认了IR不是研究民族主义动员应该去的领域。
评分亮点不多。研究的是上层决策,一手资料却主要在基层,错位明显;对史料和公开资料的发掘运用也缺乏突破。理论维度和历史厚度有限,读起来更像是政治评论或智库报告。一点疑问,IR是否是研究民族主义的理想领域?
评分年终补录:看这本书纯粹是给weiss面子,毕竟是许多一门课的老师,但此人人品差、学术差、脾气差,被耶鲁扫地出门也是正常,居然混到康奈尔教职也证明康奈尔是瞎了狗眼。
评分理论和案例分开看,一起看就是灾难。
评分港真,作为前IR学生我对这个问题及其解释的期待远高于社会学出身的同学们,但看完以后的失望也是更大,描述多于解释,没什么新意。
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