Chinese Conceptions of Peace: Historical foundations and implications for contemporary conflict agency

Over the past 25 years, China has become deeply involved in global conflict management, promoting a distinctive “developmental peace” approach that emphasizes economic development and capacity-building as a foundation for societal stability, in contrast to the Western model of liberal peace. Xinyu Yuan and Pascal Abb show that this concept is shaped by China’s own experience of achieving domestic stability through growth and the continuing influence of Marxist economic determinism.