Germany, March 5 -- Project Id: 125657
Description: Objective
Power beyond the state is most prevalent in economic infrastructure hubs with high technology and multiple global actors. Here, investors from emerging powers challenge traditional theory and practice. Chinese and Brazilian companies are now the most important bilateral investors in Africa. They apply existing rules and practices, and introduce new practices of governance and business-society relations that compete with Western norms. But their impact is not properly understood in theories of transnational governance.
This project will rethink transnational governance by focusing on the margins of international relations to explain how models and experiences of actors from the...