China’s expanding engagement with the UN Development Pillar

Event Type
Launch Event

Location / Date
New York, 08.11.2022

Organizer

This event was co-hosted by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in New York and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).

China has intensified its engagement with the UN development pillar over the last decade, giving rise to competing narratives. On the one hand, China is said to assume a more active role of responsible shareholder and supporter of UN multilateralism. On the other hand, China is perceived as trying to expand control at the UN and re-shape its norms and structures to better reflect China’s national interests. It is against this backdrop of ambivalent interpretations that the study by IDOS researchers Max-Otto Baumann, Sebastian Haug and Silke Weinlich provides the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of China’s growing engagement with the UN development pillar. The study surveys China’s growing, but still limited financial contributions and representation in the UN’s body of staff. Based on interviews with UN staff and diplomats, it also presents novel insights into China’s patterns of engagement with regard to policy flagship initiatives, approaches to leadership, norms and language, and alliance politics.

At the event, the authors presented the study’s key findings and policy implications for the UN, Member States and civil society experts on development.

 

Presenters:

 

Discussant:

  • Sarah Cliffe, Executive Director, Center on International Cooperation, New York University

 

Moderator:

  • Michael Bröning, Executive Director, FES New York

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Event information

Date / Time

08.11.2022 / 19:00 - 20:30

Location

UN Church Center, 2nd floor
777 United Nations Plaza, corner of 44th Street & 1st Ave
New York

 

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET

Contact

Photo: Dr. Max-Otto Baumann is a Political Scientist and Senior Researcher in the Research programme: Inter- and Transnational Cooperation

Max-Otto Baumann
Senior Researcher

 

E-MailMax.Baumann@idos-research.de
Phone +49 (0)228 94927-272
Fax +49 (0)228 94927-130