April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
1272 pages
41h 59m
English
China is a powerful test of the universalistic aspirations of Deutsch’s (1949, 1973) theory of cooperation and competition and, in particular, its utility for understanding the conditions and dynamics through which conflict becomes constructive. China would seem to be a most inhospitable culture for the theory. As part of a collectivist culture, Chinese people are expected to be particularly wary of conflict and its open discussion (Leung, 1997). Many social scientists consider the application of Western developed theories to Asia unwarranted, even “imperialistic” (Li, Leung, Chen, and Luo, 2012). Since 1994, we have conducted cooperation ...
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