An Analysis of role theory: change and continuity in China’s role conceptions

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Kılıç, Çağla

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Objective. This thesis illuminates a changing pattern of identity and discourse in Chinese Foreign Policy in the last three decades by employing role theory and its very core concept which is assumed to be the ultimate source of motivation: National Role Conceptions. As an inductive typology, National Role Conceptions are defined as policymaker’s own definitions of general kinds of decisions, commitments or rules suitable to their state. Method. Latent content analysis was conducted to four Chinese leaders, Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin and Deng Xiaoping. it was done by counting the recurring words which reflects the ideology or the role in one of those national role conceptions. Main Argument. A change towards self-contained, ideologically Communist to more assertive, active identity in China is observable where China seeks more regional power while getting away from its ‘development first’ policy. Contribution to the literature. The primary aim of this thesis is to contribute to the existing knowledge and literature of role theory by analysing the preexisting “national role conceptions” of China and perhaps to find a regular pattern to explain the transformation in a rigorous framework. This will enable one to understand the presence of a change or continuity in Chinese decision-making processes of Chinese leaders and if there is a change, how can we interpret it?

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/26684

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Ç. Kılıç, “An Analysis of role theory: change and continuity in China’s role conceptions,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2017.