英文摘要 |
The rise of China is widely viewed as undermining liberal international regimes, largely because it does not share democratic capitalist values. This crisis is generally thought to be more severe in informal institutions such as the Basel Committee and the G20 because of their extensive reliance on normative consensus. However, recent developments in international economic governance reveal a different picture. Throughout the process of deliberation, German opposition significantly affected the G20 agenda for macroeconomic policy coordination. With respect to banking regulations, the United States repeatedly delayed the implementation of rules agreed upon by the member states. In both cases, however, Chinese compliance and cooperation was relatively good. In order to explain this unexpected occurrence, in this article, the author offers an analytical framework of normative hierarchy drawn from the realist regime theory and a constructivist analysis of power. Using this framework, this article will illustrate that informal regimes are endowed with a hierarchy in which subordinate member states such as China are more vulnerable to criticism and praise, since they are more in need of policy ideas and legitimacy, as provided by superordinate Western member states. |