Theoretical and Empirical Implications of China’s Rise in the World

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

IR scholars have written much about China’s rise. However, what exactly have China’s growing institutional clout, outward investment, and diplomatic efforts meant for China’s relative level of global influence? This panel engages with theories about the impact of China’s overseas activities and illustrate the impact of China’s overseas activities using novel case studies and quantitative datasets. Fung and Lam examine whether China is able to exert influence through multilateral institutions. Shih and Hoffman test how overseas defense agreements may increase defense production capacity and its ability to challenge other states. Third, Jost and Jordan examine China’s diplomatic influence through a new diplomatic exchange dataset from 1949 to 2017. Finally, Shi and Vest explore how China’s market penetration is constrained by institutional screening in OECD countries.

Sub Unit

• Division 17: International Collaboration

Chair

• Avery Goldstein University of Pennsylvania

Discussants

• Jessica Chen Weiss Cornell University

• Jiakun Zhang University of Kansas

Presenters

• Courtney J. Fung University of Hong Kong

• Shing-Hon Lam University of California, Los Angeles

• Geoffrey Joseph Hoffman University of California, San Diego

• Charles Austin Jordan Harvard University

• Tyler C. Jost Brown University

• Weiyi Shi University of California, San Diego

• Charlie Vest Rhodium Group

• Andrea Ghiselli Fudan University