Pragmatism in International Politics: US-China practices between 1991 and 2021

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Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - and currently on full loan to Canadian universities in Egypt - International Branch - Prince William University

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This research argues that the foreign-policy conduct of both China and the US shows that neither of these countries complies with a particularly coherent ideology. This is not to underestimate the growing values gap between western powers on the one hand and rising non-western powers on the other hand. Instead, this is to suggest that ideological distinctions will not be decisive in shaping great power relations in the years to come, and that pragmatism will be far more crucial.A central question, therefore, is why ideology is taking the back seat to pragmatism. Anchored in two angles of the triangle of performance “Concept function, Role of analysts, Exceptions,” the research concludes that it is their pragmatism that induces the US and China to compete when necessary and cooperate when beneficial.

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