Event Date: January 14, 2014 - 3:30 pm
Location: University of Ottawa, Social Sciences Building, room FSS-4006, 120 University Private
YVES TIBERGHIEN, University of British Columbia.
Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN).
Free. In English. Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.
Our current infrastructure of global governance institutions is in urgent need of repair, expansion, and adaptation. The key relationship for progress in global institution-building is the one between established nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and emerging powers. This presentation focuses on the G20 as a novel arena built to foster cooperation between these two sets of countries. It has provided possibilities for successful engagement between China and the US, through the inducement of learning and network building at the sub-state level. Though China currently plays the role of a systemic stabilizer, its approach to global governance question is fluid and diverse. This talk builds on years of field interviews in China and at the global level, as well as participant observations of recent G20 summits.
Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002) is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia, and Executive Director of the UBC China Council. He specializes in East Asian comparative political economy, international political economy, and global governance, with an empirical focus on China, Japan, and Korea. In 2007, he published Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea (Cornell University Press in the Political Economy Series). He has also published many articles and book chapters on the Japan’s and China’s political economy, on global governance, global climate change politics, and on the governance of agricultural biotechnology in China and Japan. He is currently working on a multi-year project on the battle for global governance with a particular focus on the role of China, Japan, and Korea in the G20 and in global economic and environmental issues.