WORKING PAPERS

MAPPING STATE INFLUENCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS: THE CASE OF CHINA

1. Shing-hon Lam and Courtney J. Fung. “Mapping China’s Influence at the United Nations”

• China exerts influence at the United Nations over leadership personnel appointments. When countries have higher UN General Assembly voting affinity with China, these China-friendly states secure greater increase in UN leadership positions. These posts generate two pay-offs for China: in turn, moving China-friendly nationals into other UN leadership positions and aligning liberal discourse with PRC discourse by using PRC-specific terms and PRC-reinterpreted words. Using text analysis methods, we show that China-friendly leadership positively correlates with the use and frequency of PRC-specific terms in its reports. Also, China-friendly leadership tends to use PRC-reinterpreted words in line with PRC meanings. Our project speaks to a limited literature on emerging power’s attempts to advance influence in multilateral institutions.

RISING POWERS AS GLOBAL SECURITY ACTORS

2. “Rising Powers and Norm Contestation: Norm Begrudgers in International Politics”

3. Rohan Mukherjee and Courtney J. Fung, “Rising Powers, Status Politics, and International Cooperation”

CHINA'S ROLE IN CRAFTING GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

4. China and Global Security Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press/Cambridge Elements in Global China Series, forthcoming).