Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.38

Title: 

China, the UN, and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image

Speaker: 

Prof. Rosemary Foot, Oxford University

Host: 

Prof. Yijia Jing, IGPP, Fudan University

Discussant：

Prof. Jiejin Zhu, SIRPA, Fudan University

Dr. Xueying Zhang, SIRPA, Fudan University

Time: 

19: 30 (Beijing Time), Dec.6th; 11:30 (London Time), Dec.6th

Venue: 

Zoom Meeting ID: 993 9857 8214

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THE SPEAKER

Professor Emeritus Rosemary Foot is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Research Associate of Oxford’s China Centre. In 1996, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Her research interests and publications cover security relations in the Asia-Pacific, broadly defined, with a particular focus on China and regional and world order, and China-US relations. Author or editor of 14 books, her latest book is entitled China, the UN, and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image (Oxford University Press, 2020).

ABSTRACT

How are we to make sense of China’s more active engagement with the United Nations in the last decade or so? This lecture traces this question focusing directly on Beijing’s involvement in one of the more contentious areas of UN activity—human protection—contentious because the norm of human protection tips the balance away from the UN’s Westphalian state-based profile, towards the provision of greater protection for the security of the individual. As an ever-more crucial actor within the United Nations, Beijing’s rhetoric and some of its practices are playing an increasingly important role in determining how this norm of human protection is articulated, interpreted, and in some cases implemented.