China and Global Economic Governance, Volume I: China's BRI & AIIB and Global Economic Governance

by Kevin G.Cai (Editor), Yitan Li (Editor), Sujian Guo (Editor)

Overview

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 Nature’s journals in recent years and turn them into two edited volumes under the title of China and Global Economic Governance.

Volume I explores how China’s 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 China’s 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031732119
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	09/13/2025
Series:	Politics and Development of Contemporary China
Edition description:	2025
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: China’s 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) 8:45–62.- Chapter 5: Revisiting China Threat: The US’ Securitization of the ‘Beltand Road Initiative,’ Abdur Rehman Shah. Chinese Political Science Review (2023) 8:84–104.- Chapter 6: The Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Its Implications for China’s Regional Policy, Charles Chong‑Han Wu. Chinese.- Chapter 7: The BRI‑Led Globalization and Its Implications for East Asian Regionalization Serafettin Yilmaz, Bo Li. Chinese Political Science Review (2020) 5:395–416.- 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) 8:105–131.- Chapter 9: Cooperative counter‑hegemony, interregionalism and ‘diminished multilateralism’: the Belt and Road Initiative and China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Fabricio Rodríguez, Jürgen Rüland. Journal of International Relations and Development (2022) 25:476–496.- Chapter 10: The AIIB and China’s Normative Power in International Financial Governance Structure, Zhongzhou Peng, Sow Keat Tok. Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev. (2016) 1:736–753.- Chapter 11: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Status-Seeking: China’s Foray into Global Economic Governance, Hai Yang. Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev. (2016) 1:754–778.- Chapter 12: Conclusion.