A novel, pressing, and challenging issue has emerged in international political economy in recent decades following the rapid rise of Chinese economic power, that is, how to accommodate China as a new economic superpower within the existing structure of global economic governance. This has become not only a highly contentious geopolitical and geoeconomic issue that is complicating already complex relations between major powers, particularly between China and the USA but also a heated issue of scholarly debate in the academia. It is within this context that the editors have decided to collect some relevant articles on this topic that have been published in some of Springer Natures journals in recent years and turn them into two edited volumes under the title of China and Global Economic Governance.
Volume I explores how Chinas two initiatives of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) have been bringing implications on geopolitics and geoeconomics in general and on global economic governance in particular. Volume II examines how Chinas active engagement in the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and the Group of 20 (G20) has helped shape the development of these groupings and impacted not only geopolitics and geoeconomics at both regional and global levels but also global economic governance
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Chinas Initiatives: A Bypassing
Strategy for the Reform of Global Economic Governance, Kevin G. Cai. Chinese
Political Science Review.
Chapter 3: All Roads Lead to Beijing: Systemism,
Power Transition Theory and the Belt and Road Initiative, Enyu Zhang, Patrick
James. Chinese Political Science Review (2023) 8:1844.
Chapter 4: Putting
the BRI in Perspective: History, Hegemonyand Geoeconomics, Mark Beeson, Corey
Crawford. Chinese Political Science Review (2023) 8:4562.
Chapter
5: Revisiting China Threat: The US Securitization of the Beltand Road
Initiative, Abdur Rehman Shah. Chinese Political Science Review (2023)
8:84104.
Chapter 6: The Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Its Implications
for Chinas Regional Policy, Charles ChongHan Wu. Chinese.
Chapter 7: The
BRILed Globalization and Its Implications for East Asian Regionalization
Serafettin Yilmaz, Bo Li. Chinese Political Science Review (2020) 5:395416.-
Chapter 8: Infrastructure and the Politics of African State Agency: Shaping
the Belt and Road Initiative in East Africa, Frangton Chiyemura, Elisa
Gambino, Tim Zajontz. Chinese Political Science Review (2023) 8:105131.-
Chapter 9: Cooperative counterhegemony, interregionalism and diminished
multilateralism: the Belt and Road Initiative and Chinas relations with
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Fabricio Rodrķguez, Jürgen
Rüland. Journal of International Relations and Development (2022)
25:476496.
Chapter 10: The AIIB and Chinas Normative Power in
International Financial Governance Structure, Zhongzhou Peng, Sow Keat
Tok. Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev. (2016) 1:736753.
Chapter 11: The Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank and Status-Seeking: Chinas Foray into Global
Economic Governance, Hai Yang. Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev. (2016) 1:754778.-
Chapter 12: Conclusion.
Kevin G. Cai is Professor of Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Canada
Yitan Li is Professor of Department of Political Science, Seattle University, USA
Sujian Guo is Honorary Professor of Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, China and Professor of Political Science Department, San Francisco State University, USA
