The Impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative: From Asia to Europe

ISBN-13: 9780815396109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 266 str.

Jeremy Garlick

Opis

This book merges macro- and micro-level analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to dissect China’s aim in creating an integrated Eurasian continent through this single mega-project.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: The role of the Belt and Road Initiative in China’s international relations Introduction: the complex and multifaceted rise of China The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): China’s ‘new silk roads’ Reactions to the BRI as frames of interpretation Developing a theoretical-methodological approach for the Belt and Road Organisation and contribution of the book References Chapter 2: Theorising the Belt and Road Initiative 2.1 Introduction: how to theorise the BRI’s complexity? 2.2 China’s flexible, syncretic approach to policy-making in a complex world: implications for the BRI 2.3 Theory 1: Tang Shiping’s social evolution paradigm (SEP) 2.4 Theory 2: Neo-Gramscian hegemony 2.5 Theory 3: Offensive mercantilism 2.6 Complex eclecticism: a theoretical-methodological framework for analysing the BRI below the macro-level Conclusion References Chapter 3: Complex eclecticism 3.1 Introduction: why complex eclecticism? 3.2 Sil and Katzenstein’s analytic eclecticism: strengths and weaknesses 3.3 International relations (IR) theoretical schools: mainstream, non-mainstream and non-Western 3.4 Moving from inter-paradigm debates to conceptual toolkits 3.5 Complexity theory / complexity thinking (CT) 3.6 Incompleteness and difficulty: an impasse or a way forward for IR theory? 3.7 The problem of complex systems in IR 3.8 An outline of CT’s conceptual toolkit 3.8.1 Nonlinearity / sensitivity to initial parameters 3.8.2 Feedback loops 3.8.3 Emergence / self-organisation 3.8.4 Tipping points / edge of chaos 3.8.5 Black swans 3.8.6 Path dependence 3.9 Conclusion: combining complexity and eclecticism to analyse the BRI References Chapter 4: Applying complex eclecticism to the Belt and Road Initiative 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Interdependence, institutions and non-state actors 4.3 Power, states and anarchy 4.4 Norms, ideas and intersubjectivity 4.5 Non-mainstream concepts: harmony of interests / world society / relationalism / patriarchal authoritarianism / economic inequality / natural environment 4.6 Complexity theory / complexity thinking (CT) 4.7 Conclusion References Chapter 5: The characteristics of the Belt and Road Initiative 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The emerging characteristics of the Belt and Road Initiative 5.2.1 The Belt and Road is supposed to encompass over 60 countries in Asia and Europe 5.2.2 The Belt and Road is intended to improve connectivity across Eurasia, primarily by focusing on improving transport and energy infrastructure, with the other stated goals probably being subsidiary 5.2.3 The Belt and Road contains two main routes, the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the Maritime Silk Road (MSR) 5.2.4 The Belt and Road contains sub-projects 5.2.5 The Belt and Road is a continuation of previous official Chinese government policies 5.2.6 The BRI is Xi Jinping’s flagship foreign policy initiative, and thus closely associated with his leadership 5.2.7 The BRI involves the use of institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Silk Road Fund, and regional forums 5.2.8 The Belt and Road is intended to have appeal for foreign audiences as well as the domestic Chinese one, thus boosting China’s soft power abroad and legitimacy at home 5.2.9 The Belt and Road is ambitious, large-scale, loose, and vague 5.2.10 The BRI is intended to achieve win-win cooperation among participating nations 5.3 Conclusion: unpacking the implications References Chapter 6: The Belt and Road Initiative’s regional impacts 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Central Asia 6.2.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkit to Central Asia 6.3 Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) 6.3.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkit to CEE 6.4 Southeast Asia 6.4.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkit to Southeast Asia 6.5 South Asia 6.5.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkit to South Asia 6.6 The Middle East 6.6.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkit to the Middle East 6.7 Conclusions References Chapter 7: Assessing the impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Summary of the findings in Chapters 4-6 7.3 Assessing complex eclecticism 7.4 Assessing the macro-level theories 7.5 The Belt and Road’s global implications 7.6 Conclusion: the Belt and Road Initiative into the future References

O autorze

Jeremy Garlick is an Assistant Professor at the Jan Masaryk Institute of International Studies, University of Economics in Prague, specialising in China’s international relations. He lived in China between 2008 and 2010, and again between 2013 and 2015, working at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He also lived in South Korea for five years, teaching at several universities and institutes. He first arrived in the Czech Republic in 1994, where he taught at Masaryk University of Brno for three years, and speaks fluent Czech. In 2014 he obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. He has published papers in peer-reviewed impact journals and more than a hundred articles in major English-language newspapers in China, the UK and South Korea.