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New ESRC Rising Powers network on China
22 March 2010
The pace and significance of China's rise has implications for both traditional and emerging powers, as well as for developing countries. Rising Powers Network is a new network that will place China as the new 'shaper' of global development under the ESRC's Rising Power's Programme.
The network will bridge the gap between our understanding of China's policy interests and processes and its development impacts in low income countries, as well as implications of this for the international development community more broadly.
The network's core objectives are to:
- explore how China's own development trajectory shapes its engagement with and impacts on different regions
- deepen our understanding of how and why China acts as an agent of global development
- assess the implications of China for low income countries and for the international development community more broadly
Members are leading academics, policy analysts and policy-makers from China, Europe and low income countries who will be led by Dr Frauke Urban of the Climate Change and Development Centre, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and Dr Giles Mohan of the Open University.
Forthcoming workshops
Three two-day workshops will be organised in Beijing, London and Brighton. The first workshop will discuss the implications of a more nuanced and in-depth understanding of the domestic processes behind China's development activities for its external engagements. The second workshop will analyse the actors, institutions and modes of interaction through which China and low income countries engage. The third workshop will apply the analytical framework developed throughout the network activities to particular areas of on-going research on energy and climate change, focusing on the Mekong Region and Africa.
The impacts of the network will be an analytical framework and research agenda to inform future engagements between UK, low income countries and Chinese policy-makers.
(ESRC Reference: ES/H03272X/1)
Image credit: Dieter Telemans
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- Cook, S. (2009) 'China’s Rise – Implications for International Development', IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 8.0, Brighton: IDS
- Urban, F. (2009) 'Climate Change, Energy, and Low-carbon Development in the Chinese Context', IDS In Focus Policy Briefng 8.2, Brighton: IDS
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