International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative: A Bottom-Up Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367427320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 332 str.

Sidh Sintusingha; Hao Wu; Wenqi Lin

Opis

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China’s ambitious re-mapping of globalisation. This book focuses on the multi-national perspectives of BRI with an underlying observation that BRI’s geo-politically driven economic development approach exhibits significant differences from the US and European precedents of the previous centuries.

Spis treści

Section I. Background  1. Re-imagining the Silk Road for the 21st Century  2. BRI from within China: Vision, Rationale, and the "Corridors".  3. BRI from within China: Mechanisms, Institutions, and Media Representations.  Section II. International Context, analysis and outcome  4. Urban Development Challenges under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)  5. Inter-continental transport networks and Asian Economic Corridor for the Korean Peninsula  6. Establishing BRI in Thailand: Contrasting "desire lines" in the delivery of two high-speed rail projects  7. Malaysia: Chinese participation in infrastructure from contractor to conspirator?  8. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Cambodia  9. The Production of Megaprojects in Java: Colonialism, Nationalism, Development Centralisation Vs Decentralisation  10. Belt and Road Initiative in Iran: Urban-Regional Dialogue in Two Corridors and Three Cities  11. The Critical Need for Urban Planning around Port Vila’s BRI Projects  12. Ethiopia: The Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway  13. Strengthening Brazil’s food system: can China’s Belt and Road help?  14. Challenges and Opportunities to Port Development with BRI in Japan  Section III. Comparative perspectives: a bottom-up approach  15. International Perspectives of the BRI: New, Unfolding Globalisation