Falin Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4099407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Falin Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Falin |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nankai University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dollar hegemony in the digital age: An infrastructural framework
A surprising gap in the growing range of infrastructural perspectives on international relations is monetary hegemony. Adopting a Science and Technology Studies influenced definition of infrastructure that foregrounds socio-technical relations, this article develops an infrastructural analytical framework to consider the future of dollar dominance. We elaborate infrastructure effects in showing how social practices and technical objects underpin …
China-US competition in Africa: An International Order Perspective
How has China–US strategic competition for dominance in international order unfolded in Africa? This article employs a meso-level theoretical framework to examine their interactions across issue areas, institutions, and power relations, leading to three key findings. First, China–US interactions in Africa span six types of issue areas, categorized by their attributes, concessionability, and conflict-proneness. The US dominates in security and for…
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition
Digital transformations are impacting inter-state currency politics in strategically important ways. This article contributes to growing debates over the nature of US-China competition as the Chinese RMB rapidly digitizes in ways said to challenge the hegemony of a slower digitizing greenback. We categorize existing views of currency competition in the digital age into two categories: ‘conventional transformation’ and ‘transformative continuity’.…
Power Contention and International Insecurity: A Thucydides Trap in China–US Financial Relations
The China–US financial contention or confrontation comes to the fore, given the pivotal role of finance in the international system and the current international order transition. Will there be destructive conflicts or a Thucydides Trap in China–US financial relations? By adopting a power analysis framework, the China–US financial contention is observed from four types of international financial power: structural, relational, institutional and id…
Global Regulations for a Digital Economy: Between New and Old Challenges
Digital technologies are often described as posing unique challenges for public regulators worldwide. Their fast‐pace and technical nature are viewed as being incompatible with the relatively slow and territorially bounded public regulatory processes. In this paper, we argue that not all digital technologies pose the same challenges for public regulators. We more precisely maintain that the digital technologies’ label can be quite misleading as i…
Towards Rivalry or Concert? A China–US Financial Competition Triumvirate
Given the pivotal role of finance in interstate relations as a prominent source of international power, China–US financial competition, or even confrontation, could be more intense and devastating than trade conflict. It hence merits greater policy and academic attention and communication between the two states. This article takes stock of a triumvirate of Chinese views regarding China’s financial rise and potential China–US financial competition…
Rising Illusion and Illusion of Rising: Mapping Global Financial Governance and Relocating China
The empirical changes in global financial governance (GFG) and China's position in it, against the backdrop of the 2008 global financial crisis and China's economic rise in recent decades, suggest two plausible conclusions: (1) the present GFG system has been significantly reformed and improved by forming a networked architecture and a regime complex; (2) China's economic rise has automatically extended to China's rise in GFG, embodying its full …
Steadfast reformism or speculative pragmatism? The political economy of China’s exchange-rate reform
China’s exchange-rate regime reform policies have fluctuated since the early 1990s, experiencing at least six significant policy changes: 1994 unification, 1998 stabilization, 2005 reform, 2008 stagnation, 2010 relaunch and 2015 ‘8•11’ reform. This policy fluctuation plausibly suggests that China has behaved as a speculative pragmatist without being disciplined by established and consistent values, principles or national interests, particular aga…
The Chinese developmental state: Standard accounts and new characteristics
Holism Failure: China’s Inconsistent Stances and Consistent Interests in Global Financial Governance
A holism tendency in International Relations (IR) studies treats international systems and states as unitary wholes and thus leads to a tripartite view on China’s international role as either a revisionist, status quo or a pragmatist power. China’s stances in global financial governance (GFG), however, are inconsistent, which indicates that China is not a pure challenger or status quo power. These inconsistent stances do not allude to China being…
The Chinese developmental state: Standard accounts and new characteristics
Power Contention and International Insecurity: A Thucydides Trap in China–US Financial Relations
The China–US financial contention or confrontation comes to the fore, given the pivotal role of finance in the international system and the current international order transition. Will there be destructive conflicts or a Thucydides Trap in China–US financial relations? By adopting a power analysis framework, the China–US financial contention is observed from four types of international financial power: structural, relational, institutional and id…
Holism Failure: China’s Inconsistent Stances and Consistent Interests in Global Financial Governance
A holism tendency in International Relations (IR) studies treats international systems and states as unitary wholes and thus leads to a tripartite view on China’s international role as either a revisionist, status quo or a pragmatist power. China’s stances in global financial governance (GFG), however, are inconsistent, which indicates that China is not a pure challenger or status quo power. These inconsistent stances do not allude to China being…
China-US competition in Africa: An International Order Perspective
How has China–US strategic competition for dominance in international order unfolded in Africa? This article employs a meso-level theoretical framework to examine their interactions across issue areas, institutions, and power relations, leading to three key findings. First, China–US interactions in Africa span six types of issue areas, categorized by their attributes, concessionability, and conflict-proneness. The US dominates in security and for…
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition
Digital transformations are impacting inter-state currency politics in strategically important ways. This article contributes to growing debates over the nature of US-China competition as the Chinese RMB rapidly digitizes in ways said to challenge the hegemony of a slower digitizing greenback. We categorize existing views of currency competition in the digital age into two categories: ‘conventional transformation’ and ‘transformative continuity’.…
Rising Illusion and Illusion of Rising: Mapping Global Financial Governance and Relocating China
The empirical changes in global financial governance (GFG) and China's position in it, against the backdrop of the 2008 global financial crisis and China's economic rise in recent decades, suggest two plausible conclusions: (1) the present GFG system has been significantly reformed and improved by forming a networked architecture and a regime complex; (2) China's economic rise has automatically extended to China's rise in GFG, embodying its full …
Holism Failure: China’s Inconsistent Stances and Consistent Interests in Global Financial Governance
A holism tendency in International Relations (IR) studies treats international systems and states as unitary wholes and thus leads to a tripartite view on China’s international role as either a revisionist, status quo or a pragmatist power. China’s stances in global financial governance (GFG), however, are inconsistent, which indicates that China is not a pure challenger or status quo power. These inconsistent stances do not allude to China being…
The Chinese developmental state: Standard accounts and new characteristics
Steadfast reformism or speculative pragmatism? The political economy of China’s exchange-rate reform
China’s exchange-rate regime reform policies have fluctuated since the early 1990s, experiencing at least six significant policy changes: 1994 unification, 1998 stabilization, 2005 reform, 2008 stagnation, 2010 relaunch and 2015 ‘8•11’ reform. This policy fluctuation plausibly suggests that China has behaved as a speculative pragmatist without being disciplined by established and consistent values, principles or national interests, particular aga…
Global Regulations for a Digital Economy: Between New and Old Challenges
Digital technologies are often described as posing unique challenges for public regulators worldwide. Their fast‐pace and technical nature are viewed as being incompatible with the relatively slow and territorially bounded public regulatory processes. In this paper, we argue that not all digital technologies pose the same challenges for public regulators. We more precisely maintain that the digital technologies’ label can be quite misleading as i…
Towards Rivalry or Concert? A China–US Financial Competition Triumvirate
Given the pivotal role of finance in interstate relations as a prominent source of international power, China–US financial competition, or even confrontation, could be more intense and devastating than trade conflict. It hence merits greater policy and academic attention and communication between the two states. This article takes stock of a triumvirate of Chinese views regarding China’s financial rise and potential China–US financial competition…
Rising Illusion and Illusion of Rising: Mapping Global Financial Governance and Relocating China
The empirical changes in global financial governance (GFG) and China's position in it, against the backdrop of the 2008 global financial crisis and China's economic rise in recent decades, suggest two plausible conclusions: (1) the present GFG system has been significantly reformed and improved by forming a networked architecture and a regime complex; (2) China's economic rise has automatically extended to China's rise in GFG, embodying its full …
Power Contention and International Insecurity: A Thucydides Trap in China–US Financial Relations
The China–US financial contention or confrontation comes to the fore, given the pivotal role of finance in the international system and the current international order transition. Will there be destructive conflicts or a Thucydides Trap in China–US financial relations? By adopting a power analysis framework, the China–US financial contention is observed from four types of international financial power: structural, relational, institutional and id…
Digital RMB vs. Dollar Hegemony? Friendly Foes in China-US Currency Competition
Digital transformations are impacting inter-state currency politics in strategically important ways. This article contributes to growing debates over the nature of US-China competition as the Chinese RMB rapidly digitizes in ways said to challenge the hegemony of a slower digitizing greenback. We categorize existing views of currency competition in the digital age into two categories: ‘conventional transformation’ and ‘transformative continuity’.…
Dollar hegemony in the digital age: An infrastructural framework
A surprising gap in the growing range of infrastructural perspectives on international relations is monetary hegemony. Adopting a Science and Technology Studies influenced definition of infrastructure that foregrounds socio-technical relations, this article develops an infrastructural analytical framework to consider the future of dollar dominance. We elaborate infrastructure effects in showing how social practices and technical objects underpin …
China-US competition in Africa: An International Order Perspective
How has China–US strategic competition for dominance in international order unfolded in Africa? This article employs a meso-level theoretical framework to examine their interactions across issue areas, institutions, and power relations, leading to three key findings. First, China–US interactions in Africa span six types of issue areas, categorized by their attributes, concessionability, and conflict-proneness. The US dominates in security and for…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · China (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Global Financial Crisis and Policies (4 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)