William Achauer’s Speech @ CCG Book Launch
August 26 , 2024
Enhancing Global Governance in a Fragmented World, Book Launch #8 in the China and Globalization series – August 22, 2024 – William Achauer
Greetings to everyone today. Good afternoon to those in person at CCG in Beijing. For those joining online, greetings to you whichever time zone you may be in.
My name is William Achauer. I’m Editorial Director for business, economics politics, and law (books) at Springer Nature. I am joining you today from Singapore, where I am based.
Today we gather to celebrate a new volume that has recently published in the open access book series, China and Globalization, which is edited by Henry Huiyao Wang and Mabel Lu Miao. This volume, the eighth one to publish is this series, is also edited by the series editors. The title of the book is Enhancing Global Governance in a Fragmented World: Prospects, Issues, and the Role of China. The volume editors emphasize in the preface of this volume the evolutionary role think tanks have undertaken since the end of the Second World War. As the world gradually became more and more complex in its geopolitics, think tanks had become increasingly more significant in terms of their public policy advisory positioning.
The book is divided into four key sections: The Argument of Multilateralism, China’s Role in a Multilateral World, Global Relations – China and the World, and A New Vision for Global Governance. The 25 essays in the volume feature contributions from 30 experts across the global think tank community.
As an open access book publication, Enhancing Global Governance in a Fragmented World: Prospects, Issues, and the Role of China, has already obtained 19,000 chapter downloads in the short amount of time since it published just a bit earlier this summer. We expect the online readership to increase sharply in the coming months and years given the strong track record of other volumes published in the series during the past nearly 3 years. To add a bit of context, the very first volume in the series that published in the autumn of 2021, Consensus or Conflict?: China and Globalization in the 21st Century, edited by Henry and Mabel, now stands at 393,000 chapter downloads! Online readership continues strongly even after nearly 3 years since publication of the book. Transition and Opportunity: Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future, another edited work led by Henry and Mabel, now has 209,000 chapter downloads. That volume was published in early 2022, and it continues to generate active online readership. Similarly, China and the World in a Changing Context: Perspectives from Ambassadors to China, which published in March of 2022, now has 189,000 chapter downloads with sustainable online readership to this day.
I congratulate Henry and Mabel for yet another important edited work for the series, and I thank all the contributing experts from think tanks around the globe for their contributions to this important volume. Thank you.
