Additional Thoughts on Chinese Hegemony
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I have two more posts up at the Diplomat on China and international hegemony, a topic that has obviously obsessed me as of late. Here on management:
Either way, the United States needs to rethink how it approaches international order; for the first time since the 19th century, it will soon face a situation in which it cannot assume even a “first among equals” position in determining the nature of the international order. This need not be a disaster, but it does require careful strategic thought as to how to bring means and ends together.
And here a review of some new thinking on the Chinese Imperial tributary system:
A new book by Ji Young Lee, China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination, hopes to provide answers to this question. Relying heavily upon Chinese and Korean archives, Lee argues that the Chinese tributary system was evolutionary, unstable, and dependent upon its ability to offer domestic legitimation to powerful factions within Japan, Korea, and China. Hegemony survives, and is maintained, by integrating itself into the domestic politics of tributary states.