The impact of the rise of China on multilateral organizations?

The Stockholm Security Conference (SSC 20, #SthlmSecCon) will explore the impact of geopolitics on cooperation and multilateralism and the challenges this entails for international security cooperation. It will also examine how this impacts the potential to deal effectively with specific challenges such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the renewal of agreements and conflict management. China’s footprint in world affairs is now so large that the international community must pay closer and closer attention to the implications of China’s policy choices. Whereas the rise of China offers the potential for greater cooperation at the regional and the global level, China’s rise also leads to challenges and questions about how it will use its political, economic, technological and military power. Is it going to be pragmatic engagement, strategic decoupling, or is it going to be about new types of cooperation? All options will have an impact on, and provide challenges and opportunities for, multilateral organizations. These will be explored in this session, taking into account the effects at the global and/or regional level and how coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) influenced China’s positioning in multilateral organizations. Key questions and aims are assessing the impact of China’s rise on international cooperation and how to engage with China.

Moderator:
Dr Ian Anthony, Director, European Security Programme, SIPRI

Discussants:
Professor Emeritus Rosemary Foot, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Dr Matthew D. Johnson, Research Director and Founder, AltaSilva LLC
Dr Shi Yinhong, Director, Centre on American Studies, Renmin University of China

Music by Ben Beiny, Premium Beat

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