A New Model of Political Reasoning

Why politics and international relations seem to be driven by power/strategies in some conditions but seem to be attached to values/beliefs in other situations? Based on findings in (political) psychology and international relations, the book builds a new political reasoning model: a two-layered motivation-heuristic complex. The model grasps the internal mechanism that drives the co-existent and dynamic relationship between material and ideational considerations in making political choices/phenomena diverse and evolving across situations and periods. Applied to the case of China and human rights, the model helps understand several questions that attract those who are interested in the topic: e.g., the roots and contents of strategic and conceptual factors that continuously influence China's human rights idea/policies; if, why and how the strategy-ideational relationships in such idea/policies evolve across periods; and the role that China's national security condition and externalpressure play during such evolving relationships.

Theorizes how political choices are made Offers a vision for China's human rights idea and policy Explains China's contributions to the international human rights career and the world development/peace.

Autorentext
Dr Kanzhen **Li ** is a post-doctoral fellow at China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing.

Klappentext

Why politics and international relations seem to be driven by power/strategies in some conditions but seem to be attached to values/beliefs in other situations? Based on findings in (political) psychology and international relations, the book builds a new political reasoning model: a two-layered motivation-heuristic complex. The model grasps the internal mechanism that drives the co-existent and dynamic relationship between material and ideational considerations in making political choices/phenomena diverse and evolving across situations and periods. Applied to the case of China and human rights, the model helps understand several questions that attract those who are interested in the topic: e.g., the roots and contents of strategic and conceptual factors that continuously influence Chinäs human rights idea/policies; if, why and how the strategy-ideational relationships in such idea/policies evolve across periods; and the role that China's national security condition and externalpressure play during such evolving relationships.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: The Motivation-Heuristic Complex.- Chapter 2: Approaching Political Reasoning.- Chapter 3: Two Tiers of Motivation-Heuristics.- Chapter 4: Two Tiers' Interaction.- Chapter 5: Reasoning Outcome: Form and Type.- Part 2: The Empirical Part.- Chapter 6: Empirical Connection: the China Case.- Chapter 7: China and Human Rights: Two Layers of Considerations.- Chapter 8: Pre-1997: National Survival Strategy.- Chapter 9: Post-1997: Towards Balance Between National Survival and Meaningfulness.- Chapter 10: Conclusion.