China’s New Multilateral Institutions and Social Purpose in Global Governance

China's Bid for Hegemony? is a research project carried out by Prof. Dr. Matthew Stephen and funded by the German Research Foundation through the Heisenberg Programme. It examines the role of China-founded institutions in global governance.

New Publication (open access)

Beyond multilateralism: China’s international order building through transnational policy forums. The Pacific Review, First View 26 November 2025.

https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2025.2590512

Photo credit: The Presidential Press and Information Office's of Azerbaijan (2019)

Project Goals

China has played a key role in the creation of a range of multilateral institutions and initiatives, from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. The project "China's Bid for Hegemony?" aims to provide a comprehensive institutional mapping of China's institutional creation efforts, and to examine what kind of social purpose these institutions serve.

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