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Weak Power Bargaining with China: Mongolia and North Korea in comparative perspective

2014; Routledge; Volume: 23; Issue: 90 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10670564.2014.898905

1469-9400

Ramón Pacheco Pardo, Jeffrey Reeves,

Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

AbstractThis article examines Mongolia's and North Korea's bargaining with the People's Republic of China to provide insight into Northeast Asian regional dynamics and weak state bargaining behavior. The article demonstrates how both Mongolia and North Korea (which it demonstrates are weak states) employ a variety of tactics within the categories of capitulation, neutrality and confrontation when managing their respective relations with China. The article also argues the applica`bility of the two case studies to a better understanding of the diplomatic challenges China faces as it continues its development and to China's relations with the various weak states on its periphery. Notes 1. Derek McDougall, ‘Responses to “rising China” in the East Asian region: soft balancing with accommodation’, Journal of Contemporary China 21(73), (2013), pp. 1–17. 2. Diane Panke, Small States in the European Union: Coping with Structural Disadvantages (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), p. 29. 3. 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