The Uniting of Europe. Political, Social and Economical Forces, 1950-1957.

Meyer, F. V.; Haas, Elizabeth

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“…Neofunctionalism predicts that as complex interdependence proliferates, governments, NGOs, and citizens subjected to it will see their interests better served by the supranational institutions that facilitate it than their domestic authorities, and will consequently transfer their allegiance to the supranational (Meyer and Haas 1959). Out of its own interest to expand its soft power, the US harnesses this effect by permeating those supranational institutions -the IMF, WB, and WTO -with their own values and culture, thereby influencing fellow member states to subscribe to US values without directly subscribing to the US itself.…”

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China’s Challenge to the Institutions of Global Governance and US Soft Power

Oddleifson

2020

PSUR

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China stands on the brink of surpassing the US in material capability and is pushing the world towards an increasingly multipolar order. This paper assesses the constraints on the growth of China's non-coercive influence in global politics. However, the constitutional groundings of global economic governance in US ideology and their institutional stickiness make China’s prospects of altering the mandates and structures of the IMF, WB, and WTO highly unlikely. Furthermore, by examining the outcomes of China's lending strategies in developing countries using Angola as a case study, this paper highlights China's inability to supplant growing IMF and WB agreements in developing countries and their failure to institutionalize their influence in partner countries. In sum, this paper concludes that liberal values, and by extension the non-coercive influence of the US, are likely to be upheld during China's rise by the institutions of global governance, namely the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organisation.

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confidence: 99%