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

ISBN-13: 9781032083667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 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 relationsIntroduction: the complex and multifaceted rise of ChinaThe Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): China’s ‘new silk roads’Reactions to the BRI as frames of interpretationDeveloping a theoretical-methodological approach for the Belt and RoadOrganisation and contribution of the bookReferencesChapter 2: Theorising the Belt and Road Initiative2.1 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 BRI2.3 Theory 1: Tang Shiping’s social evolution paradigm (SEP)2.4 Theory 2: Neo-Gramscian hegemony2.5 Theory 3: Offensive mercantilism2.6 Complex eclecticism: a theoretical-methodological framework for analysing the BRI below the macro-levelConclusionReferencesChapter 3: Complex eclecticism3.1 Introduction: why complex eclecticism?3.2 Sil and Katzenstein’s analytic eclecticism: strengths and weaknesses3.3 International relations (IR) theoretical schools: mainstream, non-mainstream and non-Western3.4 Moving from inter-paradigm debates to conceptual toolkits3.5 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 IR3.8 An outline of CT’s conceptual toolkit3.8.1 Nonlinearity / sensitivity to initial parameters3.8.2 Feedback loops3.8.3 Emergence / self-organisation3.8.4 Tipping points / edge of chaos3.8.5 Black swans3.8.6 Path dependence3.9 Conclusion: combining complexity and eclecticism to analyse the BRIReferencesChapter 4: Applying complex eclecticism to the Belt and Road Initiative4.1 Introduction4.2 Interdependence, institutions and non-state actors4.3 Power, states and anarchy4.4 Norms, ideas and intersubjectivity4.5 Non-mainstream concepts: harmony of interests / world society / relationalism / patriarchal authoritarianism / economic inequality / natural environment4.6 Complexity theory / complexity thinking (CT)4.7 ConclusionReferencesChapter 5: The characteristics of the Belt and Road Initiative5.1 Introduction5.2 The emerging characteristics of the Belt and Road Initiative5.2.1 The Belt and Road is supposed to encompass over 60 countries in Asia and Europe5.2.2 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 subsidiary5.2.3 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-projects5.2.5 The Belt and Road is a continuation of previous official Chinese government policies5.2.6 The BRI is Xi Jinping’s flagship foreign policy initiative, and thus closely associated with his leadership5.2.7 The BRI involves the use of institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Silk Road Fund, and regional forums5.2.8 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 home5.2.9 The Belt and Road is ambitious, large-scale, loose, and vague5.2.10 The BRI is intended to achieve win-win cooperation among participating nations5.3 Conclusion: unpacking the implicationsReferencesChapter 6: The Belt and Road Initiative’s regional impacts6.1 Introduction6.2 Central Asia6.2.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkit to Central Asia6.3 Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)6.3.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkit to CEE6.4 Southeast Asia6.4.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkit to Southeast Asia6.5 South Asia6.5.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkit to South Asia6.6 The Middle East6.6.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkit to the Middle East6.7 ConclusionsReferencesChapter 7: Assessing the impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative7.1 Introduction7.2 Summary of the findings in Chapters 4-67.3 Assessing complex eclecticism7.4 Assessing the macro-level theories7.5 The Belt and Road’s global implications7.6 Conclusion: the Belt and Road Initiative into the futureReferences

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.