China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status

This book explains China’s inconsistent response to intervention at the UN Security Council. China reconciles its status dilemma as it weighs decisions to intervene: seeking recognition from both its intervention peer groups of great powers and developing states, that often conflict regarding decisions to intervene. Understanding the impact and scope conditions of status answers why China took certain positions regarding intervention and how these positions were justified. The book draws upon new data, and concludes with new perspectives on the malleability of China’s core interests, insights about the application of status for cooperation, and the implications of the status dilemma for rising powers.