Global Governance and China The Dragon’s Learning Curve Global Institutions Series

This volume offers systematic analysis of China?s growing engagement in global governance institutions over the past three decades. During this period, China has gone from outsider to observer to insider. The volume is based on studies of Chinese involvement in a wide cross section of regimes, including trade, finance, intellectual property rights, foreign aid, and climate change.

The contributions show that China?s participation in global governance reflects the mutually interactive processes of China?s own socialization into the global community and the simultaneous adaptation of global institutions and actors to China?s growing activism. Both China and the international system are internally complex. Hence, Chinese engagement varies across economic regimes, yielding different results in terms of Chinese compliance, its influence on regimes, and the extent of cooperation and conflict in addressing challenges in international society. The chapters reveal that China is neither purely a savior nor scofflaw of the global economic system, and while China is a defender of the status quo in some areas, it is a reformer in others, and occasionally a revisionist in still other spheres.

A detailed analysis of many areas of global governance, this volume will be essential reading for students and scholars of international relations, Chinese studies and global governance.

Introduction: Learning to be insiders Scott Kennedy 1. China and the WTO James Scott and Rorden Wilkinson 2. Being in the WTO: China's learning and growing confidence Wang Yong 3. Chinese and Japanese FTA strategies and their implications for multilateralism Wei Liang and Junji Nakagawa 4. Organizational factors in China's GPA accession negotiations Tu Xinquan 5. China and the G20: A reform-minded status-quo power Ren Xiao 6. China's role in global governance: A comparison of foreign exchange and intellectual property Bruce Reynolds and Susan K. Sell 7. China’s involvement in global health governance: Progress and challenges Yanzhong Huang 8. Learning by doing: China's role in the global governance of food security Katherine Morton 9. China's rise as development financer: Implications for international development cooperation Xu Jiajun 10. China and global labor standards: Making sense of factory certification Tim Bartley and Lu Zhang 11. Domestic politics and Chinese participation in transnational climate governance Thomas Hale and Charles Roger

Scott Kennedy is Deputy Director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies and Director of the Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.