‍Central Asia and The Caucasus Journal

Strategic adaptation of China's foreign policy strategy in the Middle East region

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Mohammad Reza Faraji

Assistant Professor of International Relations, Ardakan University

Abstract
Changes in the international distribution of power create an incentive for strategic changes. With the emergence of emerging powers, international institutions are under pressure to adapt to the new realities of power. Based on the satisfaction of changing actors in power, as well as the hard and soft nature of power transformations, the strategic adaptation of actors takes the nature of power bargaining, strategic partnership, or strategic persuasion. This research tries to examine China's strategies in the Middle East region. To achieve this goal, the research explains China's strategies in the Middle East region with the assumption of power changes and their effect on the actors' strategies. The main hypothesis of the article is that China has adopted a strategy of creative adaptation in the regions with the experience of transformation in its power due to the reformist approach and having hard and soft power, and the Middle East is one of the regions that is in its strategic circle. Therefore, it seems that China's approach in the Middle East region is creative adaptation. On this basis, tries to avoid entering into controversial issues and trying to be active and adaptive in the region with innovative plans such as the Belt and Road and investing in different places.

Keywords

Adaptation
China
Middle East
strategy
power

Subjects

‍Central Asia and The Caucasus Journal
Volume 30, Issue 125
Spring 2024
Pages 95-120

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