Thematic working group international cooperation in the context of systemic rivalry
Investigating the current situation and future possibilities for international cooperation in the context of systemic rivalry.
BackUnder this horizontal topic we examine the possibilities and scope conditions for international cooperation in the context of systemic rivalry. Competition and different systems of order need not automatically lead to confrontation. How can cooperation be stimulated in order to secure global goods?
We begin by analysing the precise nature of systemic rivalry, and the different ideas about international order and domestic political systems. In doing so, we scrutinize the assumptions underlying the idea of “systemic rivalry”, both conceptually and empirically, and also consider other competing discourses. Secondly, we investigate the (changing?) opportunities for international cooperation in this context (quantity, quality and forms). We analyse this at different levels in selected institutions - multilateral, plurilateral, regional, bilateral - and in diverse sectors. Where is there change, where continuity? What kind of change is occurring within ongoing cooperation? Where is competition increasing, or new opportunities opening up? For which actors and formats? How can we shape our relationships with countries that adopt a confrontational stance? And how would such actions affect systemic rivalries?
SWP Publications
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Germany’s Value-based Partnerships in the Indo-Pacific
SWP Research Paper 2024/RP 04, 27.03.2024, 25 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024RP04
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United States and China on a Collision Course
The importance of domestic politics for the bilateral relationship
SWP Research Paper 2023/RP 05, 02.05.2023, 45 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2023RP05
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Multilateralism and Partnership in German Foreign and Security Policy
in: German Foreign Policy in TransitionContribution to a Research Paper 2021/RP 10, 13.12.2021, 125 Pages, pp. 55–57
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Strategic Rivalry between United States and China
Causes, Trajectories, and Implications for Europe
SWP Research Paper 2020/RP 04, 06.04.2020, 53 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2020RP04
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The Sino-American World Conflict
SWP Research Paper 2020/RP 03, 04.02.2020, 33 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2020RP03
External Publications
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What Multipolar World Order and for Whom?
in: 9dashline.com, 30.04.2024 -
Back to the Future: The Mystery of Building the Next World Order
in: The Return of the West? Thirty Years of "The End of History", Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, New York, December 2022, pp. 23-25