Chinese One Belt, One Road Initiative: Challenges and Opportunities

ISBN-13: 9786202029391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str.

Aghavni Harutyunyan

Opis

In 2013, China proposed the world its New Great Silk Road initiative - the "Economic Belt of the Silk Road" and the "Maritime Silk Road of 21th Century" - OBOR. By building the OBOR, Beijing will essentially integrate the entire Eurasian continent connecting Asia, Europe and Africa together, creating alternative routes practically in all directions of China's trade expansion. The OBOR projects intended for their alignment are viewed as a large-scale and long-term strategic task that may reshape and transform the entire Eurasian region when implemented. Developing rail transportation, which is much faster than sea transportation, the OBOR can even change the geopolitical configuration of the world, and dialectically remove the confrontation between continental and maritime powers, turning the planet into one huge supercontinent. The OBOR intended to be the foundation of a new type of international relations, and its overarching goal is to be an active part in the establishment of a multi-polar world-order. Nonetheless, the diversity and different economic and political situations of countries along the OBOR faces a unique combination of internal and external risks and challenges.

O autorze

Aghavni Harutyunyan, Ph.D in History, Leading Researcher Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of NAS RA. She deals with China's foreign policy issues in the Middle East and post-Soviet space, Chinese One Belt, One Road Initiative. Author of more than 40 scientific publications, participant of many scientific conferences and seminars.