The Belt and Road Initiative: Law, Economics, and Politics

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37378-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 760 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1225 g

This 28-chapter volume brings together academics and practitioners to provide a comprehensive legal, economic and political analysis of the Belt and Road (BRI) initiative that has emerged since 2013 as a key feature of China’s international economic policy. It offers a fundamentally novel approach towards international trade, investment and global governance in an unsettled time of shifting geopolitics when many institutions developed in the West are being called into question. The book covers a broad range of BRI-related international economic law and policy issues, including trade facilitation and connectivity, economics and geopolitics of new trade routes, foreign direct investment law, bilateral investment treaties, free trade agreements, financing of infrastructure, development aid, international dispute resolution, and regional economic integration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chaisse, Julien

Górski, J&drzej

Górski, Jedrzej

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1Introduction

Julien Chaisse and Jedrzej Górski

Part 1: The Foundations of the Belt and Road Initiative

2One Belt One Road (“obor”) Roadmaps: The Legal and Policy Frameworks

Donald J. Lewis and Diana Moise

3The Political Economy of obor and the Global Economic Center of Gravity

Usman W. Chohan

4The obor Global Geopolitical Drive: The Chinese Access Security Strategy

Francisco José Leandro

5It is Not the End of History: The Financing Institutions of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Bretton Woods System

Maria Adele Carrai

6Northern Sea Route: An Alternative Transport Corridor within China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Vasilii Erokhin and Gao Tianming

7The Effect of the “Belt and Road Initiative” on along Countries’ Employment

LU Yue, JIA Yingqi and TU Xinquan

8Challenges and possible responses of the Eurasian Economic Union to the Belt and Road Initiative

Alexander Mikhaylenko

Part 2: Towards the Expansion of Chinese Outward Investment

9What is One Belt One Road? A Surplus Recycling Mechanism Approach

Usman W. Chohan

10The International Investment Agreement Network under the “Belt and Road” Initiative

Anna Chuwen Dai

11Paving the Silk Road bit by bit: An Analysis of Investment Protection for Chinese Infrastructure \ Projects under the Belt & Road Initiative

LAI Huaxia and Gabriel M. Lentner

12The Role of Chinese State-Owned Investors and obor-Related Investments in Europe: The Implication of the China-EU bit

YIN Wei

13National Security Review of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (‘fdi’) into the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (‘gcc’): Challenges and Opportunities

Bashar H. Malkawi and Joel Slawotsky

14A Domestic National Controls a Foreign Investor in Investment Arbitration: In Light of China’s Negative Lists

ZHANG Anran

Part 3: The International Trade Issues of the bri

15“Unimpeded Trade” in Central Asia – A Trade Facilitation Challenge

Joanne Waters

16One Belt, One Road Initiative into a New Regional Trade Agreement: Implication to the wto Dispute Settlement System

Sungjin Kang

17bri Initiative: A New Model of Development Aid?

Tymoteusz Chajdas

18Turning doors – Piracy, Technology and Maritime security along the Maritime Silk Road

Helen Tung

19Infrastructure Investments: Port, Rail, and International Economic Rules

Karlok Carlos Li and Julien Chaisse

20Development Banks as Environmental Governance Actors: The aiib’s Power to Promote Green Growth

Flavia Marisi

21Stakes and Prospects of the Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent in ‘One Belt One Road’ Projects in the Context of Transnational Investment Law and Arbitration

Anna Aseeva and YIP Ka Lok

22Central and Eastern Europe, Group 16+1 and One Belt One Road: The Case of 2016 Sino-Polish Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

Jedrzej Górski

Part 4: bri Dispute Resolution: Directions for the Future

23Some Considerations on the Civil, Commercial and Investment Dispute Settlement Mechanisms between China and the Other Belt and Road Countries

ZHU Weidong

24International Commercial Mediation, an Opportunity for obor

Giovanni Matteucci

25Energy Dispute Settlement and the One Belt One Road Initiative (‘obor’)

MA Sai

26The Energy Charter Treaty and Central Asia: Setting an International Standard for Energy-Related Disputes

Maria Bun

27Central Asian Investment Arbitration and obor – Learning from the Current Investment Climate

Mariel Dimsey

28China’s Maritime Silk Road and the Future of African Arbitration

Aweis Osman

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julien Chaisse, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Advisory Board Member, Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL). His publications include China's International Investment Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2019), International Investment Treaties and Arbitration Across Asia (Brill/Nijhoff, 2017) and International Economic Law and Governance (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Jedrzej Górski, Ph.D. (2016) is a research fellow and Ph.D. candidate in international relations at the City University of Hong Kong. Formerly research associate at UCL Australia (2017), Endeavour Research Fellow at MLS (2014) and associate at CMS (2010-2012).