The Geopolitics of China's Belt and Road Initiative

Theodor Tudoroiu (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)

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Routledge
14 April 2025

Regional studies; International relations

Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

This book argues that China’s Belt and Road Initiative should be seen more as a geopolitical project and less as a global economic project, with China aiming to bring about a new Chinese-led international order. It contends that China’s international approach has two personas – an aggressive one, focusing on a nineteenth century-style territorial empire, which is applied to Taiwan and the seas adjacent to China; and a new-style persona, based on relationship building with the political elites of countries in the Global South, relying on large scale infrastructure projects to help secure the elites in power, a process often leading to lower democratic participation and weaker governance structures. It also shows how this relationship building with elites leads to an acceptance of Chinese norms and to changes in states’ geopolitical preferences and foreign policies to align them with China’s geopolitical interests, with states thereby joining China’s emerging international order. Overall, the book emphasizes that this new-style, non-territorial “empire” building based on relationships is a major new development in international relations, not fully recognized and accounted for by international relations experts and theorists.

By: Theodor Tudoroiu (The University of the West Indies Trinidad and Tobago)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781032615998
ISBN 10: 1032615990
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 14 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 International Order, Grand Strategy, and China Chapter 3 Geopolitics Chapter 4 Normative Power, Relationality, Chinese Socialization, and an Alternative Geopolitical Approach Chapter 5 The Belt and Road Initiative Chapter 6 Sri Lanka and the Geopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative Chapter 7 The BRI and the Sino-American Confrontation Index

Theodor Tudoroiu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

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