China and Intervention at the UN Security Council

Courtney J. Fung is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on how rising powers, like China and India, address the norms and provisions for a global security order. She was most recently a research fellow with the East Asia Institute in their Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia, and was previously a post-doctoral fellow with the now Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, based at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. She held pre-doctoral fellowships with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, and with the Global Peace Operations Program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University.

• List of Tables List of Graphs List of Abbreviations Introduction Background 1: Historical Overview of China and Intervention at the UN Security Council 2: Chinese Discourse on Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Theory 3: Theory and Empirical Strategy Cases 4: Status and Intervention in Darfur, Sudan 2004 - 2008 5: Status and Intervention in Libya, 2011 - 2012 6: Status and Intervention in Syria, 2011 - 2015 7: Conclusion Appendix: Chinese Ambassadors to the United Nations, 1971-2018 Bibliography Index

She not only draws attention to an underappreciated motive of Chinese foreign policy, but also develops a sophisticated, and largely persuasive, theory of how and when status concerns encourage leaders to do the unexpected.