Humanistic Statecraft and the Development of the Post-Global Order: China’s Normative Reordering of Global Economic and Social Processes in the Post-Global Era

Humanistic Statecraft and the Development of the Post-Global Order: China’s Normative Reordering of Global Economic and Social Processes in the Post-Global Era

Professor Dharmakeerthi Sri Ranjan

Department of Mass Media

Sri Palee Campus, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 

Abstract

In this post-globalization era, economic development and its expansion have been manifested by the growing skepticism towards Western neo-liberal universalism. Liberalism is an Asian concept which advocates and expansion of the autonomy of individuals and political self, emphasizing the principle of equality. As a leading country in Asia, China has advanced its potential idiosyncratically humanistic approaches into the global economic and social development. This research extended the philosophical, sociological and institutional approaches of China’s humanistic statecraft, and their strategical incorporations of ethics, communal welfare, and relational governance into its global outreach, particularly through platforms of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Global Development Initiative (GDI), and South-South cooperation frameworks etc. Illustrating on political and economic philosophy, development theory, and sociological and psychological approaches of international relations, this study observes how paradigms of alternative modernities in China foreground the process of their norms and values, such as harmony, mutual respect, and inclusive growth of the concepts of Confucianism and socialist humanism. These normative assurances are ingrained in economic policies, infrastructure projects, and the process of multilateral diplomacy that seeks to transcend transactional logic and encourage solidaristic interdependences. The qualitative analysis of this research, the policy papers of Chinese, diplomatic languages, and partner-state responses, etc., reveals that China’s humanistic development discourses are not merely oratorical but function as a governance technology and contest the epistemological supremacy of neoliberal paradigms in the world. According to these approaches and contributions, the emerging pluriversal world order emphasizes the systems of no longer unilinear ways but dialogical and culturally contingent. Accordingly, this model of China advances both possibilities and contradictions, which presents an alternative to hegemonic developmentalism. This systematization strengthens state-centric authority and geopolitical asymmetries. China's emphasis on humanistic patterns of globalization represents a significant recalibration of international economic and social power in the post-global era.

Keywords: Humanistic statecraft, Post-globalization, China’s global development, Pluriversal order, Relational governance.