Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2020

Abstract

In contrast with the selective adaptation approach toward external norms seen in its accession to the World Trade Organization, China increasingly plays a proactive role on the international stage, with the Belt and Road Initiative at the center of these activities. How can we understand this new approach by China toward international economic governance? What is responsible for China's shifting approach, and what are the implications of this shift? The paper presents selective reshaping as a new theoretical framework, and argues that China is shifting toward the selective reshaping of institutions and rules within the global economic order. Within this theoretical framework, perception and conception, complementarity and legitimacy are influencing components that affect selective reshaping, and which manifest substantially differently in this context, when compared with selective adaptation. Selective reshaping is likely to transform the institutions and rules within the international economic order, and carry long-term implications.

Keywords

China, WTO, World Trade Organization, international economic governance, reshaping, selective adaptation

Discipline

Asian Studies | International Economics | International Law | International Trade Law

Research Areas

Public International Law, Regional and Trade Law

Publication

Journal of International Economic Law

Volume

23

Issue

3

First Page

583

Last Page

606

ISSN

1369-3034

Identifier

10.1093/jiel/jgaa021

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Copyright Owner and License

Authors CC-BY

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgaa021

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