China's Belt and Road Initiative: Strategic and Economic Impacts on Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Eastern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367515904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 250 str.

Alfred Gerstl; Ute Wallenböck

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 Łódźkie–Sichuan Partnership  Chapter 12: Economic (Policy) Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative for Central, East, and Southeast Europe