China's economic slowdown: implications for Beijing's institutional power and global governance role

Loke, Beverley

doi:10.1080/09512748.2017.1408674

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“…Regime Shifting is a significant approach in several respects, such as: China's promotion of some regional political and trade regimes that exclude Western countries and target developing countries; the enhancement of overland transport routes to reduce the dependence on maritime choke-points in the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea; China's emphasis on the guidelines of respect for sovereignty in South-South cooperation that is distinguished from enforcement by the West; and efforts to revive the Eurasian culture memory. Therefore, we can conclude that China plays the roles of both rule taker and rule breaker when implementing the BRI, which accords with several studies that claim that rising powers are support some aspects of the current global order and contest others (Jones, 2020;Loke, 2018;Paradise, 2016;Yuan, 2018). However, the role played by China goes beyond the binary outlook of rule taker and rule breaker.…”

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“…However, the AIIB offers the world's first infrastructure-dedicated multilateral development bank (MDB). The approach of these financial platforms becomes more complicated because they are targeted at infrastructure construction, which is a vacuum issue because of a lack of attention, sufficient funding and effective institutions (Loke, 2018;Yuan, 2018). Except for differences in power distribution and project selection with existing financial platforms, the MDBs initiated by China are identical to existing financial institutions in their governance, such as operational policy, sovereign-backed loans and guarantee pricing policy, procurement policy, information policy, and environmental and social framework (Wilson, 2019).…”

Section: Building a New Type Of Financial Platformsmentioning

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Beyond the status quo and revisionism: an analysis of the role of China and the approaches of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to the global order

Liu

2020

Asian Journal of Political Science

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What are the roles China plays and what approaches does China take to the global order? This paper goes beyond the singular and static view on the roles of states as either status quo or revisionist and introduces more subtle roles of states with multiapproaches of Status Quo, Parallel Supplement, Nested Enhancement, Regime Shifting, Competitive Regime Creation and Ideological Confrontation. After coding 1889 events from the 'Belt and Road Portal' and then taking eight most frequent case clusters of the BRI as representative cases, the congruence analysis leads to the main argument that China plays multiple roles of rule taker, rule reformer, rule breaker and rule innovator. The contribution is both theoretical and practical. It improves the typology of states' approaches to the global order and helps to interpret the roles of emerging powers for the global order. By designing the BRI Index and coding the case cluster, this paper provides a new way to identify the representative case of the BRI.

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Section: Building a New Type Of Financial Platformsmentioning

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Beyond the status quo and revisionism: an analysis of the role of China and the approaches of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to the global order

Liu

2020

Asian Journal of Political Science

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“…Either it refers to the power of institutions , such as international organizations, state institutions, companies, churches, etc., which can be used to exercise control over people (Marshal, Curry, & Pacelle, 2014; Sieberer, 2011), or it is applied to describe a state’s control of international institutions . In the latter case, institutional power enables states to exert indirect influence on the behaviour of member states through the institutions’ formal and informal rules (Choi, 2013; Loke, 2017; Thompson, 2013).…”

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The Ascent of Saudi Arabia to a Regional Hegemon: The Role of Institutional Power in the League of Arab States

Felsch

2020

International Studies

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After the Arab upheavals that began in 2011, Saudi Arabia became the most dominant power in the Arab world. While most of its Arab rivals experienced political and economic crises and disintegration, the Gulf monarchy began an unprecedented active and even interventionist foreign policy and increased its regional influence tremendously. Remarkably, most of this activism was not exercised unilaterally but within regional institutional frameworks, mainly of the League of Arab States (LAS) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). This article investigates how Saudi Arabia gained institutional power within the LAS. The analysis is based on the LAS decisions at the Summit level before and after the Arab uprisings with regard to Saudi Arabia’s main foreign policy interests. The purpose of the article is to examine the essence of Saudi Arabia’s regional power. It also looks at the unforeseen revitalization of the LAS and allows predictions of the future of Arab regionalism in a changing Arab world.

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“…In the early 1970s, China joined the UN system, but remained relatively inactive for the following 25 or so years. It was only much more recently that China began taking an active interest in existing global governance institutions, as well as establishing new ones (Shambaugh, 2013, p. 125;Loke, 2017). This general trend manifests in China's participation in the institutions established to govern nuclear technologies as well.…”

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State transformation and China’s engagement in global governance: the case of nuclear technologies

Hameiri

Zeng

2019

The Pacific Review

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Debates over the implications of China's rise for global governance have reached an impasse, since evidence exists to support both 'revisionist' and 'status-quo' intentions. This means that neither is strictly falsifiable and hence the debate, as currently structured, is irresolvable.However, contradictions are explicable if we recognise that China is not a unitary state. Since the beginning of the reform era, its international engagements have been shaped by the uneven transformationfragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisationof state apparatuses.Contradictory international actions thus may reflect not top-down strategic direction, but conflicts, disagreements and coordination problems within China's transformed party-state.Our state transformation approach directs us away from evaluating China's approach to global governance in totowhether it is overall a revisionist or status quo powertowards a detailed analysis of particular policy domains. This is because in each issue-area we find different constellations of actors and interests, and varying degrees of party-state transformation. We demonstrate the centrality of state transformation analysis for explaining the co-existence of revisionist and status quo behaviours through the apparently hard test-case of nuclear technologies. Even in this 'high politics' domain, state transformation dynamics help explain China's inconsistent international behaviours.

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China's economic slowdown: implications for Beijing's institutional power and global governance role

Cited by 18 publications

References 67 publications

Beyond the status quo and revisionism: an analysis of the role of China and the approaches of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to the global order

Beyond the status quo and revisionism: an analysis of the role of China and the approaches of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to the global order

The Ascent of Saudi Arabia to a Regional Hegemon: The Role of Institutional Power in the League of Arab States

State transformation and China’s engagement in global governance: the case of nuclear technologies

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