The G20 Research, Under The Vision Of Global Governance

In the period of globalization, the interaction of international and domestic institutes has required the improvement and reformation of the theories of international and domestic politics. In the international society without a central government, the global governance through international institutes and regulations is of special significance. With the vision of global governance, this dissertation demonstrates that the changing process of discourse power of international politics and economy to which the change of the power contrast between developed countries and the emerging economies leads reflects the flux from unilateral mode to multilateral one in the global governance.In global governance, practice is prior to theory, while the institutionalization process of multilateral mode in the global governance is not parallel to that of the reestablishment of international relation structure. G20 materializes the transference process of international politics and economy, while the transference of politics is not parallel to that of economy. That the international status of the emerging economies and developing countries, to be accurate, the discourse power of the emerging countries, is becoming more and more important is due to their ascending capability of economy. The realization of the discourse-power validity needs a long-term period, i.e. the transference in which developed countries demise their authority to lead the whole word will realize, only if the balanced strength between the emerging economies lasts for a long time.The main part of this dissertation consists of eight parts, their contents can be generalized as follows:Chapter One, the Necessity of the Theory of Global Governance, Its Practice and the Change of Its Modes. After the cold war, along with the deepening development of globalization as well as the adjustment of the structure of international politics and economy, the global governance is not only a pure theory of international politics, but also an urgent issue of practice in the contemporary international politics. Whether the global governance can show its importance in the structure of international politics depends on the possibility and extent of which the international institute and the domestic one is adjacent to each other. The current problem of international politics consists in that the growing number of the public problems challenges the effectivity of the existed domestic institute and the stability of domestic order. These problems which are beyond the governance of nation-state prevail in the international social space without governance. The successful international governance requires the close cooperation between different countries, and avoids the conflicts of international world. Therefore, the global governance faces dual challenge, i.e. to assure the justice and equality of the arrangement of international institute and to assure that the various domestic institutes can be restricted by international institutes. The inclination to globalization, the global problems and the process of democracy require that more countries with great influence participate the global governance, and give their support to the change of governance mode.Chapter Two, The Global Governance of G7 or G8 mode. After the disintegration of Bretton Woods system, to deal with the depression of capitalistic economy in 1970s, the Western countries establish the system of G7 which is a unilateral mode and which focus on the economic interest of Western countries. The global agenda which it constitutes is the external forms which is helpful for the western countries to realize its material interest. The participation of Russia into G7 changes the G7 which consists of only developed countries. Russia also participates the global agenda, thus break the unilateral mode of G7. Although Russian has not much influence on the agenda of global governance, the establishment of the multilateral mode begins.Chapter Three, The Financial Crisis and the Establishment of G8. In this chapter, the author elucidates the beginning of G20, its constitution, the qualification of its member, its task, function and operation mechanism, and demonstrates the formation and quick development of the multilateral mode of governance. Asian financial crisis makes the international society realize that the solution of international financial problems require the participation of not only western countries but also the emerging developing countries, Thus, a systematic and informal dialogue mechanism between important countries within the Bretton Woods system, G20 emerges. It is the formation of multilateral mode of global governance. Global financial crisis changes the structure of international politics, it is the acceleration of multilateral mode of global governance.Chapter Four, The Multilateral Governance Mode of G20. The real significance of global financial crises lies in that it changes in a real sense the discourse hegemony of western democracy which came into being since the capitalism established. A real diversification of economic and cultural modes in the world appears in a higher level. The leading power is not just in the hand of G7 countries which are in the control of USA, but also the G20 countries. While the function of the emerging countries power becomes important, the new international structure embodies the new mode of multilateral global governance. The diversity of issues and the leader summits makes G20 the primary forum in the international cooperation, and exhibits its function of multilateral global governance.Chapter Five, The Shortcoming of G20. As a new mode of governance, G20 should deal with the global problems which emerge from the change of international structure, and establish new agenda, solve the problem of the re-balance of global economy in the post-crisis period. G20 is not a global governance institute which represents the interest of all countries over the world. It cannot avoid getting into the trouble of the lack of flexibility and representativeness. Therefore, G20 can search the break point in its mechanism and formation. The break point consists of four aspects: comprehensively think about the long-term problems and short-term problems, search for the interest balance between western developed countries and the emerging economic powers, define the relation between G20 and the United Nations, and treat well with the problem of relation between G20 members and non-G20 members.Chapter Six, G20 Mode and The Rise of China. The rise of Chinese economy and international status requires China to gain the appropriate discourse power in the system of international economy and politics. G20 provides a stage for the ascending China to participate into the international dialogue, enlarge the international vision of China, is helpful for China to put forward its interest claims, and is advantageous to China to participate in the construction of international regulation and global order.Chapter Seven gives a conclusion of this dissertation on the basis of the analysis in the previous chapters, and orients the further study in the future.