In 2015, seventeen European states joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
as Founding Members. France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, among the group …

The 2000s witnessed tectonic changes in the pattern of international relations. Central to
these changes is the crisis of global governance and the multipolarization of world politics …

This book explores how imperialism has been evolving in the neoliberal era, with the aim of
providing a systematic and integrative understanding of the inner dynamics and …

During the 2010s, a number of new multilateral development banks (MDBs) were
established, including the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) New …

Presenting the history of relations between the European Union and Japan, this book
explains the origins and significance of the momentous 2018 Economic Partnership …

What environmental issues occupy China's main development agenda? How does China
address these crucial issues? In what direction are China's environmental policies evolving …

This paper critically assesses the (de) legitimation strategies used by rising powers against
existing formal and informal International Organizations (IOs), especially the G7/8, the World …

The freorientation of the world, paraphrasing and borrowing Andre Gunder Frank's title
(Frank 1998), and the Asian return to centre stage of global power in a period of a new multi …

“Consolidating rules-based global governance” has been a key motive behind the European
Union (EU)'s effort to constructively engage China for some time. Recently, the issue has …

This contribution focuses on a reconceptualization of the term globalization, drawing on
world system theories and the dialectical concept of countermovement. The focus is the …