Legitimate Multipolarity

合法的多极化

• 批准号: 394229330
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Heike Holbig
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien (GIGA)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/394229330?language=en
• 关键词: Legitimate; Multipolarity

Global governance institutions work differently under conditions of multipolarity. According to some, the rise of new powers has contributed to a wider legitimacy crisis of global governance institutions plagued by gridlocks, poor performance, and inadequate representativeness. On the other hand, rising powers capacity to contest established powers agendas prima facie increases the legitimacy or fairness of global governance institutions by way of reducing power asymmetries between North and South. In a first step, Legitimate Multipolarity investigates the legitimacy deficits of global governance under conditions of multipolarity by way of three case studies of individual global governance institutions (WTO, G20, AIIB), which together comprise key elements of our understanding of multipolarity. Legitimate Multipolarity adopts an empirical, not normative, approach to the study of legitimacy. From that perspective, legitimacy deficits of global governance institutions arise from members doubts about the rightful sources of authority, poor performance, and articulations of dissent. In a second step, the project examines potential solutions to legitimacy problems put forward from within the two most prominent rising powers, China and India. It does so by systematically analysing ideas expressed in foreign policies, official statements, or emanating from public discourses within China and India. Here, we consider both ideational resources for improving the legitimacy of global governance institutions under conditions of multipolarity and discourses aimed at legitimating the authority of rising powers vis-à-vis other states.The project establishes two major datasets of political communication (one per work package), complemented by qualitative interviews with experts and representatives of the foreign policy communities in China and India. The projects third component seeks to infuse key findings into the German policy sphere by way of cooperating with the Federal Foreign Office.

全球治理机构在多极化条件下的工作方式不同。一些人认为，新兴大国的崛起加剧了全球治理机构更广泛的合法性危机，这些机构受到僵局、绩效低下和代表性不足的困扰。另一方面，新兴大国对既定大国议程提出质疑的能力，通过减少南北之间的权力不对称，增加了全球治理机构的合法性或公平性。第一步，《合法多极化》通过对三个全球治理机构（WTO、G20、AIIB）的案例研究，探讨了多极化条件下全球治理的合法性缺陷，这些机构共同构成了我们对多极化理解的关键要素。《合法多极化》对合法性的研究采取了一种经验主义而非规范性的方法。从这一角度来看，全球治理机构的合法性缺陷源于成员国对权威合法来源的怀疑、业绩不佳以及表达不同意见。在第二步中，该项目研究了两个最突出的崛起大国中国和印度内部提出的合法性问题的潜在解决方案。它通过系统地分析中国和印度的外交政策、官方声明或公共话语中表达的思想来做到这一点。在此，我们既考虑了在多极化条件下提高全球治理机构合法性的理念资源，也考虑了旨在使新兴大国维斯维斯其他国家的权威合法化的话语。该项目建立了两个主要的政治沟通数据集（每个工作包一个），并辅以对中国和印度外交政策界专家和代表的定性访谈。该项目的第三个组成部分力求通过与联邦外交部合作，将主要调查结果纳入德国的政策领域。