Understanding the hegemony and the dialectics of the emerging world order / Li Xing -- Theorizing the rise of the Second World and the changing international system / Steen F. Christiansen and Raul Bernal-Meza -- Constructing and conceptualizing "interdependent hegemony" in an era of the rise of the BRICS and beyond / Li Xing and Oscar G. Agustin -- BRICS and bilaterals : synergies and contestations / Renu Modi -- From boulders to ashlars : BRICS of a new world order : hierarchies of power and degrees of freedom in the emerging world system of the 21st century / Leonid L. Fituni -- G20 and c2 : Sino-US relations as an institutional cooperation game? / Lin Hongyu and Li Xing -- China in Africa : cool cash or a new world order? / Søren Villadsen -- A "new silk road" between China and the Arab world : a problem for the US or the EU? / Wolfgang Zank -- "Chineseness" as socialization : China and the ASEAN in East Asian regionalism / Zhang Jiuan and Li Xing -- Conclusion : the BRICS & beyond : new global order, reorder and/or disorder? : insights from "global governance" / Timothy M. Shaw.