CHINA’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE NEW GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ITS KEY - CONCEPTS OF EXTERNAL POLICY

• Main Author: Mădălina Virginia ANTONESCU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Academiei Oamenilor de Ştiinţă din România 2015-05-01
• Series: Annals: Series on History and Archaeology (Academy of Romanian Scientists)
• Subjects: contemporary international system; global arc hitecture; foreign policy; China; multipolar world; Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
• Online Access: http://aos.ro/wp-content/anale/IVol7Nr1Art.4.pdf

The present article intends to open a multidimensional window to the international system, since the beginning of the 21 st century, beyond the limitation of a single paradigm, albeit it is realist. The complexity, dynamism and interdependencies among the various subsystems and global actors of today’s world render it, in our opinion, difficult to analyse from the realist perspective (preferred by a part of the IR doctrine). We chose to bring into discussion concepts s uch as “the multipolar world”, “Connected daguo”, “the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence”, regarding certain key - concepts pertaining to the external policy of China, with roots in its ancient history, concepts which prove the extraordinary ability of China to combine two seemingly opposed visions (without being a player in the Westphalian world, governed by its rules, and in the globalized world, governed by other rules and forms of diplomacy).