Overview
- Offers a clear and combined multi-perspective approach on China's BRI
- Combines geopolitics and geostrategy to better understand dynamics of the BRI
- Assesses regional and global impacts of BRI, in terms of interdependence between continents and regions
- Analyses the contribution of the BRI to the shaping of a new era marked by a benign revisionism, assertiveness and pragmatism
- Presents contributions of passionate scholars combining practice and a sustained theoretical framework
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This book is an analysis of the developments associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) five years after Xi Jinping announced both the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the 21st Maritime Silk Road (21MSR). Together, these two dimensions constitute the B&RI, providing the so-called Chinese ‘project of the century’ with regional, inter-regional and global reach. This book aims at assessing the impact of the B&RI in all these dimensions and levels of influence. This is a current and promising theme, not only in the short and medium terms, but also within a broader timescale, reflecting Chinese strategic thinking itself, since Chinese philosophy and culture are oriented towards long-term and inter-generational perspectives. Likewise, both the title of this publication and the way it has been organized result from the empirical perception that China asserts a conservative attitude towards foreign affairs, redesigned in multiple dimensions, to create a perception of domestic unity and global prestige. In this vein of thought, the B&RI is already influencing and will continue to influence, directly or indirectly, the current economic and political order.
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Keywords
- New Silk Roads and China’s Grand Strategy
- Belt and Road Initiative form a German perspective
- EU Legal Obstacles to the Belt and Road Initiative
- China-EU Framework on the Belt and Road Initiative
- China´s Role in the International Climate Change Regime
- China’s outward direct investment (ODI) and BRI
- BRI Sustainable and Inclusive Growth and Finance Sources
- Financing of the Belt and Road Initiative
- Western Hemisphere and the BRI
- Latin America, the Caribbean, and BRI
- China’s Blue Economy Partnership
- the EU’s Blue Growth Strategy
- China’s “16 + 1” cooperation
- Central and Eastern Europe, and the BRI
- Poland and the BRI
- BRI and the Portuguese Speaking Countries
- China and the great urban projects in Cape Verde
- Multiplex regionalism in Central Asia
- Afghanistan and China’s Foreign Policy
- India’s Selective Participation in China’s BRI
Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Belt and Road Initiative Concept
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The Belt and Road Initiative and the European Union
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The Belt and Road Initiative and Latin America, North Atlantic, Central Europe and Central Asia
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Francisco B. S. José Leandro received a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the Catholic University of Portugal in 2010. He is currently an associate professor and Assistant Dean of the Institute for Research on Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the City University of Macau, China.
Paulo Afronso B. Duarte received a Ph.D. in political science from the Catholic University of Louvain. He is currently an assistant professor at Universidade Lusófona do Porto and guest professor at the University of Minho. He is a post-doctoral researcher at Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política, University of Minho, Portugal.
Paulo Afronso B. Duarte received a Ph.D. in political science from the Catholic University of Louvain. He is currently an assistant professor at Universidade Lusófona do Porto and guest professor at the University of Minho. He is a post-doctoral researcher at Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política, University of Minho, Portugal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Belt and Road Initiative
Book Subtitle: An Old Archetype of a New Development Model
Editors: Francisco José B. S. Leandro, Paulo Afonso B. Duarte
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2564-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2563-6Published: 04 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2566-7Published: 04 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2564-3Published: 03 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIV, 553
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Foreign Policy, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Development and Social Change, Economic Policy, International Political Economy