Description du projet
Examen comparatif du «modèle chinois» en matière de droit et de développement
La pandémie de coronavirus a détourné les chaînes d’approvisionnement mondiales, suspendu les activités internationales et nuit aux alliances entre États. Ces changements ont stimulé les débats autour de la question d’une gouvernance adéquate pour ce qui est du bien-être économique, de la santé publique, de la sécurité et des libertés. La Chine est devenue une championne de la mondialisation et fournit des biens publics au monde en développement. Le projet CLD, financé par l’UE, se concentre sur le rôle du droit dans la version chinoise de la gouvernance transnationale. La Chine semble s’appuyer sur les infrastructures juridiques existantes (tribunaux, contrats et régimes de droit privé) et sur des alternatives innovantes, par exemple, en matière de financement du développement et de règlement des différends. Ce projet pluridisciplinaire produit des données empiriques sur l’approche de la Chine en matière de structuration de l’ordre et évalue son impact sur les économies émergentes.
Objectif
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 GrantInstitution d’accueil
OX1 2JD Oxford
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