The Chinese approach to peacebuilding: contesting liberal peace?

The rise of China in peacebuilding has invoked lively debate about its role vis-à-vis the dominant order, or liberal peace. Extant research revolves around binary construct challenger-versus-supporter, ignoring nature and scope challenges that poses to Also, these studies tend unidimensionally examine China’s stance on particular elements There is scant assessing against overall normative structure peace paradigm. This article proposes a typology contestation targets different constitutive parts stances are scrutinised based systematic review policy documents interviews with scholars practitioners Beijing, Shanghai, Geneva New York. finds generally abstained from contesting basis (validity contestation). However, it been actively pursuing content by reshaping sequencing existing incorporating democratisation international system into agenda. Moreover, clearly opposes externally formulated imposed solutions, whereby advances application