This book examines the progress and reception of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in key subregions of Asia, Africa and Europe.
Through its exploration of the patchwork of distinctive sub regions of each continent, the book analyses how well the BRI accommodates sub regional variation as it attempts to integrate Asia, Africa, and Europe under Chinese auspices. Individual chapters focus on how developing subregions experience BRI relations with China, while others focus on how liberal powers seek to compete with China’s BRI agenda. The contributions also gauge the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the BRI in regional settings and point to its future implications.
Offering a panoramic view of the vast mosaic of Asian, African, and European sub regions targeted by the BRI, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations and Global Political Economy as well as Chinese politics and those with an interest in the Belt and Road Initiative more broadly.
Part 1: Introduction 1. Making sense of the Belt and Road Initiative Part 2: BRI in Asia 2. South Korea response to the BRI: Hedging amidst change and continuity in the international system 3. The Belt and Road Initiative and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Interactions and Impact before and after COVID-19 4. Slippery Road Ahead: BRI, China and Southeast Asia amid COVID-19 Pandemic 5. Patterns of China’s BRI Ingress in South Asia: Implications for Regional Order 6. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Central Asia 7. China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Middle East and Iran Part 3: BRI in Europe 8. The End of China’s Affair with Central and East Europe 9. The European Union’s Response to the Belt and Road Initiative Part 4: BRI in Africa 10. BRI vs. AAGC, FOIP and Africa’s Agenda 2063 11. China-Africa Overseas Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone Project Cooperation: A Preliminary Evaluation 12. Worlds of work in the Belt and Road—Analysing dynamics of labour in Chinese enterprises in Africa 13. Examination of Chinese BRI projects in Africa: An Indian perspective 14. The Roads, the Belts, and the Contemporary International Political Economic System Part 5: Strategic overview 15. Financial sustainability of the Belt and Road Initiative before and after Covid-19 16. The Belt and Road Initiative as geostrategy Part 6: Conclusion 17. What have we learned from this collection?
David M. Arase is Resident Professor of International Politics at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, USA. Pedro Miguel Amakasu Raposo de Medeiros Carvalho is Full Professor of Economic History and African Economic Studies at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.
