Overview
- Examines the evolution and major elements of China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI)
- Analyses the foreign policy and economic strategy behind the initiative as well as the geoeconomic and geopolitical impact on the region
- Offers two case studies on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR)
Part of the book series: Global Power Shift (GLOBAL)
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This book examines the evolution and major elements of China’s Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI), a trillion-dollar project for the revival and refinement of ancient terrestrial and maritime trade routes. The author analyses the foreign policy and economic strategy behind the initiative as well as the geoeconomic and geopolitical impact on the region. Furthermore, he assesses whether the BRI has to be considered as a challenge to the US-led order, leading to a Sinocentric order in the 21st century.
Offering two case studies on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR), the book reveals the drivers motivating China and its partners in executing BRI projects, such as security of commodity-shipments, energy supplies, and explores trade volumes as well as the anxiety these trigger among critics. The book juxtaposes these to non-Chinese, specifically multilateral institutional and Western corporate, inputs into Beijing’sdevelopmental planning-processes. It also identifies the role of combined Chinese-foreign stimuli in generating the policy priorities precipitating the BRI vision, and the geoeconomic essence of BRI’s implementation.
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Book Title: China’s Belt and Road Vision
Book Subtitle: Geoeconomics and Geopolitics
Authors: S. Mahmud Ali
Series Title: Global Power Shift
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36244-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36243-0Published: 24 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36246-1Published: 24 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36244-7Published: 23 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2198-7343
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7351
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 330
Topics: International Security Studies, Asian Politics, Economic Geography, Asian Economics, Regional Development, Diplomacy