China's Financial Multilateralism Initiative and Challenging the International Financial Order (2008-2019)

Abstract

The financial order of the international political economy after World War II with the center of the United States and its partners was formed on the basis of the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944, and since then the IMF and World Bank have served as key representatives of this order in the world economy. China's rise and expansion of its influence and economic power, It has led us to see more of this actor in the financial field of international political order. The purpose of this article is to study China's financial minilateralism and its impact on the financial order of the international political economy and the analytical-explanatory method will be answered to this question of how China's financial multilateralism has challenged the international financial order since the 2008 financial crisis? In response, it is assumed that after the 2008 financial crisis, China has created a New parallel historical block to the international financial order by spreading the idea of financial multilateralism to abroad, thereby has challenged the hegemonic position of the existing financial order. The findings show that China has tried by normalization and dissemination Chinese ideas through the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Unconditional Loan Procedures, the BRICS Finance and Reserve Fund, and financial and monetary cooperation with other countries in the framework of the Silk Road Revival Project organized a new type of financial minilateralism outside institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF and created a new configuration in the historical structure of the international institutional order.

Keywords

• china
• financial minilateralism
• financial order
• international political economy