China’s Role in Global Governance

✍ Scribed by Bin Zhang (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a post-COVID glimpse at how top Chinese policymakers and intellectuals understand China's future in global international relations, reviewing the global economy, China’s economy, society and diplomacy, and the international situation. Ten researchers review China’s diplomacy and give their outlooks in the book. Topics discussed include: the new round of technological revolution and Industrial Revolution, the role of WTO in developing countries, the ups and downs of the Sino-US and Sino-American rivalry, the functioning of the UN General Assembly from a Chinese perspective, China’s role in restoring the world after COVID-19 pandemic, and the Beijing-led Belt and Road Initiative. This book will be of interest to development economists, scholars of politics and international relations, and scholars of comparative politics.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
On the Accelerated Expansion of the New Industrial Revolution and the Direction of Global Governance Change
Introduction
The New Industrial Revolution Builds New Momentum for Global Economic Development
The New Industrial Revolution Will Reshape the Competitive Landscape Between Countries
Multilateralism is Still the Leading Direction of Global Governance Change
Promote Necessary Reform of WTO Under the Principle of Multilateralism
Conclusion
References
Should China Join the CPTPP?
Changes in International and Domestic Situations
Necessity of China’s Accession to the CPTPP
Feasibility of China’s Accession to the CPTPP
Difficulties Facing China’s Accession to the CPTPP and Countermeasures
Conclusions and Recommendations
Perceptions of ‘Great, Once-in-a-Century Transformations’
Balance of Power: Fundamental Shifts
Scientific Progress: A Massive but Unpredictable Factor
Individual Interests: Increased Public Awareness
Demographics: Crucial but Complex
Post-WWII Dollar Economy: Nearing a Crossroads
Multilateral System: Time for Dissolution and Reconstruction
The United States: A Superpower in Decline
Increasing Tension: Confinement and Countermeasures
Constants Hold True Amid Secular Change
Looking Back a Century Hence
China–US Competition and the Staged Attributes and Goals of the Belt and Road Initiative
The Questions
China’s Rise and Relationship with the US-Led International System
Pressure on the Rise and Strategic Choices
Staged Attributes and Goals of the BRI
Global Governance Changes and China’s Response—The Supply of Global Public Goods
New Characteristics of Global Governance
Dynamics of Global Governance System
Countermeasures and Advice for Participating in Leading Global Governance in the New Era
The UN’s ‘Big Agenda’: Building an Inclusive Global Cooperation Framework
Introduction
The Expansion of UN Agendas
Dynamics of the ‘Big Agenda’
Contributions and Dilemmas of the ‘Big Agenda’
The Future of the ‘Big Agenda’
The Interaction Between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Global Governance System: A Typological Analysis
Introduction
Contending Perspectives in the Literature
Analytical Framework for the Relationship Between the BRI and the Global Governance System
The BRI’s Contribution to Global Governance
Conclusion
The Global Governance Dilemma in the Pandemic Shock and Its Root Causes
Pandemic Shock
Difficulties in Cooperation
Theoretical Elucidations
Case Examinations
Case 1: International System Model
Case 2: Major Country Coordination Model
Case 3: Mutual Cooperation Model
Case 4: Self-Help Cooperation Model
Conclusions and Recommendations
References
Political Logics and Challenges of Global Governance: An IPE Perspective
Economic Globalization and the Dilemma of Power Diffusion
Two Competing Solutions of Global Governance
Challenges of Global Governance
References