
Program
October 22-23, 2021

DAY ONE
Friday, October 22, 2021
Welcome & Introduction
8am – 8.30am (Munich CEST)
5pm – 5.30pm (Sydney AEST)
Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt (TUM)
Susan Park (University of Sydney)
Meeting-ID: 610 4765 9849
Kenncode: 643088
8.30am – 9.30am (Munich CEST) / 5:30pm – 6:30pm (Sydney AEST)

Competing Versus Cooperative Multilateralism
Discussant: Tanja Börzel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Paper 1: China’s going global and adapted governance, Yukyung Yeo
Paper 2: Who is the Revisionist Power? Understanding China’s Impact on the Multilateral Trading System, Kristen Hopewell
Break
9.45am – 10.45am (Munich CEST) / 6:45pm – 7:45pm (Sydney AEST)

Power And Position In Global Economic Governance
Discussant: James Reilly (University of Sydney)
Paper 1: China’s Multilateral Cooperation Strategy, Chris Humphrey
Paper 2: The China as a Responsible Minor Stakeholder? – A different Lens of Analyzing China’s role in the Governance of International Development Finance, Jue Wang
10:45am – 11am (Munich CEST) / 7:45pm – 8.00pm (Sydney AEST)

Summarizing Themes
Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt (TUM)
Susan Park (University of Sydney)

DAY TWO
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Welcome & Overview
10am – 10.15am (Munich CEST)
7pm – 7.15pm (Sydney AEST)
Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt (TUM)
Susan Park (University of Sydney)
Meeting-ID: 610 4765 9849
Kenncode: 643088
10.15am – 11.15am (Munich CEST) / 7:15pm – 8:15pm (Sydney AEST)

China’s Strategies In Global Economic Governance
Discussant: Tammi Gutner (American University)
Paper 1: Chinese Leadership and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Convergence or Divergence of Global Economic Governance, Jilong Yang
Paper 2: Complex delegation designs in multilateral development financing: China’s strategies of formal and informal influence in the World Bank (IBRD) and in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Julia Esser-Grimm
Break
11.30am – 12.30pm (Munich CEST) / 8:30pm – 9:30pm (Sydney AEST)

China’s Role In Global Economic Governance
Discussant: Margaret Pearson (University of Maryland)
Paper 1: Supportive Institution-Builder and Contested-Multilateralist: Explaining China’s Conflicting Initiatives in Global Economic Governance, Eugenia C. Heldt, Henning Schmidtke & Omar R. Serrano
Paper 2: China and the International Economic Order, Kevin Gallagher
12:30pm – 1pm (Munich CEST) / 9:30pm – 10pm (Sydney AEST)

Next Steps
Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt (TUM)
Susan Park (University of Sydney)