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.

Latest Publication (open access)

US-China Rivalry and the Global Governance Trilemma: Three Scenarios for World Order (together with Steve Biedermann and Steven Langendonk). Global Policy, 01 September 2026.

https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.70209

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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