LIAO Fan

Abstract: With its increased recognition and implementation, The “Belt and Road”
Initiative has become a new solution of global governance that China contributes to the
international society in the new era. “Global Administrative Law” is an attempt to introduce
the procedural principles of administrative law into the field of global governance. By creating
such distinctive concepts as “global administration” and “global administrative space”, it
provides a new perspective and tool for examining and promoting global governance. As a
technical perspective and solution, however, “Global Administrative Law” does not focus on political process or deal with political divergence. As a result, when facing the serious threat
that the current American Unilateralism poses to the multilateral system and global
governance, “Global Administrative Law” is unable to react in a fundamental way. The
reasonable implications and inherent limitations of the “Global Administrative Law” as both
an idea and an approach, shed much light on the building of the “Belt and Road” cooperation
mechanisms.

Keywords: National Sovereignty; Due Process; Multilateralism; “Belt and Road”; Global
Governance; Global Administrative Law