Book contents
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Revolution and the Transnational
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 International Relations and China’s Position in the Socialist Camp
- 2 Sino–Soviet Anxiety
- 3 Producing Socialist Bodies
- 4 Asia’s Fourth Rome
- Part II Domestic Governance
- Part III Legitimacy and Local Agencies
- Index
1 - International Relations and China’s Position in the Socialist Camp
from Part I - Revolution and the Transnational
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2023
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Revolutionary Transformations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Revolution and the Transnational
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 International Relations and China’s Position in the Socialist Camp
- 2 Sino–Soviet Anxiety
- 3 Producing Socialist Bodies
- 4 Asia’s Fourth Rome
- Part II Domestic Governance
- Part III Legitimacy and Local Agencies
- Index
Summary
This study revisits Sino-Soviet relations and develops a model explaining the structure of state-to-state relations within the socialist camp. It is aimed at contributing to our understanding of the positioning of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) within the realm of the socialist camp, and the influence this positioning had on the global setting of the Cold War. To achieve these aims the idea of triangularity in international relations is used to explain triangularity as a hidden structure within the bipolar structure of the Cold War world. While the bipolarity of the structure helps us to understand the mechanisms of long-term relative stability, triangularity helps us to understand the changes in the system and its eventual collapse.
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- Revolutionary TransformationsThe People's Republic of China in the 1950s, pp. 22 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023