Contesting the Liberal Order? China Rising in a World Not of Its Own Making

Yongjin Zhang will investigate the entanglement of the rising Chinese power with the liberal global order in negotiating for normative change. As an emerging power with an authoritarian regime, China faces a liberal global governance order and hierarchical constructs. Professor Zhang will argue that three differentiated strategic approaches have been developed by China in this entanglement: to defend liberal pluralism in the legalized hegemony; to contest liberal cosmopolitan anti‐pluralism in the changing normative order; and to endorse state‐centric solidarism with regard to the construction of a liberal global governance order. If they reflect a rising China’s preferences of order construction, they also constitute an important part of China’s engaging negotiations for normative change in international society.