"China, The BRI, And The New Vocabulary Of Global Governance" - By CWP Alum Maria Adele Carrai

In international relations, creating new vocabulary or imbuing established terms with new meanings can aid in reshaping the structure of global society and the norms that regulate it. Having long been dictated terms of international engagement by the West, China has emerged as an assertive power over the past decade and has started contributing to the language of global governance. Through official speeches and documents, especially in the context of its Belt and Road Initiative, China has enriched this language with several new terms. This chapter addresses some of these terms, exploring what they mean in China and how they have been used in multilateral documents. It examines how existing key terms have acquired new meaning in the Chinese context and what the repercussions might be for the practice of global governance.

China, the BRI, and the New Vocabulary of Global Governance Maria Adele Carrai  Chapter First Online: 08 January 2023 - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-6700-9_3

Maria Adele Carrai is an Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai. Her research explores the history of international law in East Asia and investigates how China’s rise as a global power shapes norms and redefines the international distribution of power. She co-leads the Research Initiative 'Mapping Global China,' and is the author of Sovereignty in China. A Geneology of a Concept since 1840 (CUP 2019) and co-editor of The China Questions 2 - Critical Insights into US-China Relations (HUP 2022). Before joining NYU Shanghai, she was a recipient of a three-year Marie-Curie fellowship at KU Leuven. She was also a Fellow at the Italian Academy of Columbia University, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, Max Weber Program of the European University Institute of Florence, and New York University Law School.

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