China and Global Financial Governance: Centripetalism, Elevation and Disparity

• Authors: Falin Zhang
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the post-2008 global financial crisis era, the global financial governance system has experienced dramatic changes and a comparatively new network system comes into the fore. Meanwhile, China’s extraordinary performance during the crisis by virtue of its unique political and economic systems urged the elevation of its role in the new system. Against this backdrop, three words are appropriate to describe the new system and China’s role in it in the post-crisis era-centripetalism (rather than centrifugalism), elevation (rather than domination) and disparity (rather than coherence). Centripetalism means that patched global financial governance network system has more force to coordinate states and related international organizations. Elevation refers to a relatively more important role of China in the new system, but, by no means, a dominant (or hegemonic) role. China is an indispensable participant rather than a leading power in global financial governance. Disparity indicates the differed strategies of China in various global financial governance institutions or toward different events.

Keywords

EN

China; Global Governance; Global Financial Governance; Centripetalism; Elevation; Disparity

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Journal of Area Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 90-113

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2013-12-31

Contributors

author

Falin Zhang

• MCMASTER UNIVERSITY

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ijas-2013-0005