I am pleased to share the news that my book, China, the West, and the Global Development Financing Regime: Competitive Convergence, is now available from Edward Elgar Publishing.
An ebook edition is available on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9781035334377…).
Synopsis: This book interrogates the evolving dynamics of global development finance amid renewed great power competition, focusing on China’s rise as a dominant funder and its impact on the liberal international order (LIO). Challenging assumptions of ideological bifurcation, the study advances the concept of competitive convergence—a process through which both China and the West have emulated one another’s practices rather than diverging into distinct blocs. Drawing on extensive case studies—including the Belt and Road Initiative, the AIIB, and Western institutional responses—the book reveals how strategic competition has produced a more pluralistic, post-neoliberal development regime. Rather than disrupting the LIO, China’s actions have reshaped it from within, reflecting adaptation rather than rupture. This nuanced, empirically grounded analysis offers scholars a fresh framework for understanding institutional change in global governance and the complex interdependence shaping today’s multipolar order.
The Internationalist 