【内容提要】
“International responsibility” has been on China’s International Relations (IR) research agenda for more than one decade. In September 2005, Robert B. Zoellick (2005) gave a speech on the United States’ China policy at the National Committee on US-China Relations, proposing that China act as a “responsible stakeholder” rather than “just a member”, which would help the US and China work together and “sustain the international system that has enabled its success”.
Zoellick’s remarks had at least two impacts on both theoretical and policy-related studies in China. On the one hand, they started the collective large-scale research endeavors on “international responsibility”. In fact, China showed some hints of “obsession” with Zoellick’s ideas, in particular with the statement of “responsible stakeholder” (Stratfor 2005). Deng Yong (2015:119) finds the diffusion of “responsible power” in China “extraordinary”.As shown in Figure 1, from 2005 to 2010, there is a stable increase in the number of studies with the keywords relating to international responsibility. Therefore, it is also interesting to investigate the following question: why and how has Zoellick’s speech triggered the emergence of China’s large-scale focus on international responsibility?
【作者简介】
MAO Weizhun, Researcher at Centre for Asia-Pacific Development Studies,Nanjing University; Associate Professor at School of Government, Nanjing University