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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 4 / 2017  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW - JOEL WUTHNOW, CHINESE DIPLOMACY AND THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL: BEYOND THE VETO, LONDON AND NEW YORK, ROUTLEDGE, 2013, 240 PP..

Authors:  IONUȚ-EUGEN-RADU SAVA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  While the world is adjusting to yet another fragmented cycle of humanity, the coeval circumstances represent the quintessential momentum to reset the standards of aspirations, values and principles of nations across the world. Recent developments within the greater geopolitical diagram brought a major consequence which is synonym, I would say, to the notion of power vacuum. Hence, such features become harder to be digested by those classical actors. In parallel, witnessing a fluctuant 21st Century where tradition meets modernism, where the West meets the East, the ever-changing framework offers, beyond doubt, the chance for states to assert, to step up and expand its potential inward different patterns; it is the terminus point when these actors acquire specific configurations and take the opportunity to reshape those already existing frameworks. Their credibility, however, might ultimately be put at stake, because their range of operation limits the actions inside this fragile system which stubbornly holds onto the conventional establishment. In the light of these disclosures, I intend to review in the upcoming passages a book published by Joel Wuthnow, a young American sinologist, whose work serves as a pivot in understanding China’s actions in the United Nations (UN) Security Council (SC) in recent years.  
         
     
         
         
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