China's Belt and Road Initiative

Strategic and Economic Impacts on Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Eastern Europe
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-51704-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 389 g

Reihe: Rethinking Asia and International Relations

This edited volume presents a trans-disciplinary and multifaceted assessment of the strategic and economic impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on three regions, namely Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Eastern Europe.

The contributions to this book demonstrate the requirement of a more realistic view concerning the anticipated economic benefits of the New Silk Road. The contributors critique the strategic effects of China’s opaque long-term grand strategy on the regional and global political order. Specific countries that are covered are Finland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Poland, and Thailand. Additionally, case studies from South Asia and Africa, notably India and Ethiopia, enable insightful comparisons.

Encouraging readers to critically challenge mainstream interpretations of the aims and impacts of the BRI, this book should interest academics and students from various disciplines including Political Science, International Relations, Political Geography, Sociology, Economics, International Development, and Chinese Studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerstl, Alfred

Wallenböck, Ute

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Making Analytic Sense of the Belt and Road Initiative: A Plea for Multi- and Trans-Disciplinary Approaches and Eclecticism Chapter 2: The Belt and Road Initiative Post-April 2019: Plus Ca Change! Chapter 3: Thoughts on Appropriate Approaches to Studying BRI’s Actual Impacts and Limits Chapter 4: The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative and Its Impact on Democratization and De-Democratization Processes Chapter 5: China’s Faltering Normative Power Drive in Kazakhstan Chapter 6: Malaysia and China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Triology of Commitment Problem, Diplomacy, and Strategic Foreign Policy Chapter 7: Chinese Grand Strategy and the Belt and Road Initiative: The case of Southeast Asia Chapter 8: The BRI, Logistics, and Global Infrastructure: New World Order, the Game of Go, and the Dispositif of Shi Chapter 9: China and the USA in Central Asia: Competing Actors with Different Goals? Chapter 10: Rail Development Potential in Asia in the Frame of the Belt and Road Initiative: What Market? Chapter 11: From Railway Dreams to a Reality Check: Achievements and Challenges of Sino-Polish Relations at the Local Level – The Case of Lódzkie–Sichuan Partnership Chapter 12: Economic (Policy) Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative for Central, East, and Southeast Europe

Über Autor(innen)

Alfred Gerstl is a specialist on International Relations in Southeast Asia. Since 2019 he holds a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic).

Ute Wallenböck is a postdoctoral researcher for the EU-funded "Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges" project at Palacký University Olomouc, and assistant professor for Chinese Studies at Masaryk University, Brno, both in the Czech Republic.