Global perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative : asserting agency through regional connectivity / edited by Florian Schneider.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schneider, Florian, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yi dai yi lu (Initiative : China).

China--Foreign economic relations.

China.

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The year 2013 saw the launch of the largest, most influential investment initiative in recent memory: China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This globe-spanning strategy has reshaped local economies and regional networks, and it has become a contested subject for scholars and practitioners alike. How should we make sense of the complex interactions that the BRI has enabled? Understanding these processes requires truly global perspectives alongside careful attention to the role that local actors play in giving shape to individual BRI projects. The contributions in 'Global Perspectives on China's Belt and Road Initiative: Asserting Agency through Regional Connectivity' provide both 'big picture' assessments of China's role in regional and global interactions and detailed case studies that home in on the role agency plays in BRI dynamics. Written by leading area studies scholars with diverse disciplinary expertise, this book reveals how Chinese efforts to recalibrate the world are taken up, challenged, revamped, and reworked in diverse contexts around the world.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Actors and Agency in China's Belt and Road Initiative

An Introduction / Florian Schneider

pt. I Global Connectivity

2. China's BRI and International Cooperation in Higher Education and Research

A Symbiotic Relationship / Ingrid d'Hooghe

3. Trade, Tax, and Development Finance

Understanding China's Choice of BRI Agreements and Institutions / Irma Mosquera Valderrama

pt. II Regional Dynamics

4. The BRI in Latin America

New Wine in Old Bottle? / Matt Ferchen

5. Ascertaining Agency

Africa and the Belt and Road Initiative / Stacey Links

6. Parameters and Pathways

Agency in the Case of the Southern African Development Community / Stacey Links

7. Over Hills and Valleys Too

China's Belt and Road Initiative in the Caribbean / Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente

pt. III Local Actors

8. The Geopolitical Relevance of the BRI

The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway in Indonesia / Mireta Petkova

9. Elite Legitimation and the Agency of the Host Country

Evidence from Laos, Malaysia, and Thailand's BRI Engagement / Cheng-Chwee Kuik

10. The Two Faces of the China Model

The BRI in Southeast Asia / Matt Ferchen

11. The Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia

Regional Impact and the Evolution of Perceptions and Policy Responses / Richard Ghiasy

12. Geographic Agency

Iran as a `Civilizational Crossroads' in the Belt and Road Geography / Mohammadbagher Forough

13. Exploring the Political, Economic, and Social Implications of the Digital Silk Road into East Africa

The Case of Ethiopia / Sanne van der Lugt.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789463727853

946372785X

OCLC:

1222780250