英文摘要 |
This paper attempts to analyze the decision-making patterns of China's foreign policy and argues that there are three patterns in Deng's China: leader in command, collective leadership, and bureaucratic organization. Which pattern dominates depends on the issue area and issue importance. In general, the issues of national security, major foreign policy guidelines, and other important policy issues always follow the leader in command pattern, most notably by Deng Xiaoping, the key elders, and the members of the Politburo Standing Committee. Secondary foreign policy issues and the most important practical issues have traditionally followed the collective leadership pattern. The members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the Central Secretariat from 1980~1987, and the Politburo after 1987 played important roles in this process. Other issues of a less pressing and more practical nature, such as relations with less important nations, have always followed the bureaucratic organization pattern. Here, the members of the Central Foreign Affairs Leading Group, the Executive Meeting of the state Council, and the heads of related ministries all have played important parts in the policy process. In the post-Deng era, however, as Jiang Zeming is not viewed as the preeminent leader, the leader in command pattern is being replaced by the collective leadership pattern as the best explanatory model of foreign policy-making. |