Abstract
This chapter discusses China’s rise as a relational challenge to international relations (IR) Newtonian ontology. It clarifies the understanding of China’s rise being more ontological than theoretical or empirical. The classical Cartesian/Newtonian worldview is heavily influenced by the development of modern science and the understanding of human society. The Newtonian ontology has informed the IR discipline and the study of China’s rise. Then, ontology conditions the way of conceptualisation and practice of power relations in world politics. Thus, a holographic relational ontology sheds a new perspective on state transformation in IR and power shifts. The ontological perspective question both views of realists and liberals theorizing China’s rising power.
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