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8 - Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2024

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The concluding chapter sums up the existential crisis of the peripheral-patronage state and reasserts its methodological and practical importance, particularly in analyses that presume to derive intention from action and see this as evidence of internalization of, even consent to, norms of human rights and good governance. It then explores the possibility of significant international change, especially from the rise of states whose domestic authority skews more towards patronage than Weberian bureaucracy, and who style themselves as respecters of aid-recipient governments’ sovereignty rather than imposing rights-based conditionalities. China's potentially transformative role receives most attention. Ultimately, because allegedly rising powers may want different rules but are unlikely to advance a rule-free global order, peripheral-patronage states’ need to strategize is unlikely to undergo radical change. This is suggestive of a functionally differentiated hierarchy of states, albeit one whose proper functioning hinges on pretending that hierarchy does not exist.

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Power, Patronage and International Norms
A Grand Masquerade
, pp. 225 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Conclusion
  • Valerie Freeland
  • Book: Power, Patronage and International Norms
  • Online publication: 01 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009468565.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Valerie Freeland
  • Book: Power, Patronage and International Norms
  • Online publication: 01 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009468565.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Valerie Freeland
  • Book: Power, Patronage and International Norms
  • Online publication: 01 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009468565.008
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