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China and international economic dispute settlement: disaggregating the state

Gregory Shaffer et al.

Journal of International Economic Law2026https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgag003article
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Abstract

Most studies take a unitary state-centric approach to assessing China’s relationship with international economic law. In contrast, we provide a more nuanced approach that assesses variation in China’s engagement. We examine the role of different Chinese state and non-state actors, considering their interests, ideological frames, institutional contexts, and relation to state power. We illustrate our analytic framework by examining China’s response to and engagement with international dispute settlement systems in three areas: international commercial arbitration, international trade dispute settlement, and investor–state arbitration. Our approach is important for global cooperation in discrete policy areas so that the West does not ‘other’ China in simplistic, binary terms.

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@article{gregory2026,
  title        = {{China and international economic dispute settlement: disaggregating the state}},
  author       = {Gregory Shaffer et al.},
  journal      = {Journal of International Economic Law},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgag003},
}

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