Descripción del proyecto
Análisis comparativo del «modelo chino» en Derecho y desarrollo
La pandemia de coronavirus ha redirigido las cadenas mundiales de suministro, ha suspendido el trabajo internacional y ha afectado a las alianzas estatales. Estos cambios han instigado debates sobre la buena gobernanza con respecto al bienestar económico, la salud pública, la seguridad y la libertad. China se ha mostrado defensora de la globalización proporcionando bienes públicos a los países en desarrollo. El proyecto CLD, financiado con fondos europeos, se centra en el papel del Derecho en la versión china de la gobernanza transnacional. China parece basarse, por una parte, en infraestructuras jurídicas existentes (tribunales, contratos y sistemas de Derecho privado) y, por otra, en alternativas innovadoras, como, por ejemplo, en financiación del desarrollo y en resolución de conflictos. Este proyecto multidisciplinar genera datos empíricos sobre el enfoque de China a la hora de establecer orden y evalúa su influencia en las economías emergentes.
Objetivo
The world is in the midst of a sea change in approaches to development. The rise of nationalist politics in the U.S. U.K. and Europe have questioned commitments to global governance at the same time that China has emerged as a champion of globalization, a turn of geo-political events that would have been unfathomable ten years ago. Through its own multi-lateral institutions, China is setting a new agenda for development from Europe to Oceania. China’s approach differs from Anglo/Euro/American approaches to “law and development” (LD). Whereas LD orthodoxy has sought to improve legal institutions in poor states, Chinese do not foster rule of law abroad. Instead, Chinese view law as one set of rules, among others, to facilitate economic transactions and not to foster democratization. This distinction has sparked a global debate about the so-called “China model” as an alternative to LD. Yet there is little empirical data with which to assess the means and ends of China’s expanded footprint, a question with long-term implications for much of the developing world. This project addresses that problem by proposing that even if Chinese cross-border development does not operate through transparent rules, it nonetheless has its own notion of order. The project adopts a multi-sited, mixed method, and interdisciplinary approach—at the intersection of comparative law, developmental studies, and legal anthropology—to understand the nature of China’s order. The project has two objectives:
1. To establish the conceptual bases for the study of China’s approach to law and development by developing the first systematic study of the impacts of Chinese investment on the legal systems of developing economies.
2. To experiment with a comparative research design to theorize how China’s approach suggests a type of order that extends through a conjuncture of regional and local processes and manifests itself differently in diverse contexts.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
OX1 2JD Oxford
Reino Unido