Critical Reflections on China’s Belt & Road Initiative

Author:   Alan Chong ,  Quang Minh Pham
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
ISBN:  

9789811320972


Pages:   249
Publication Date:   25 January 2020
Format:   Hardback
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This book provides insights into China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from Asia Pacific and the Middle East. It offers critical perspectives from various directions, not excluding historical investigations, human geography approaches and neo-Marxist inclinations. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents one of the biggest geopolitical visions since the Cold War and offers the possibilities of an intercontinental vision of Aid politics, along with prospects for pan-Asianism. By and large, any geopolitical vision that purports to foster inter-regional dialogue and materialist development of peoples and economies is bound to have its flaws. The Belt and Road Initiative bears hallmarks of the socio-political tradition of Chinese authoritarian infrastructure politics while also offering a possible alternative to the so-called ‘Washington Consensus’ of free markets, deregulation and a shift towards liberal democracy. Additionally, the Belt and Road Initiative opens up wide open intellectual spaces for dialogues between Asians, Arabs and Westerners on the meaning of inclusive inter-continental relationships in philosophy, geography and economics.  The significance of this is often underplayed in Chinese official statements whereas this book introduces these possibilities within its assorted sections. “The book is about much more than the material aspects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. In fact, various chapter authors use the Belt and Road to look at perhaps the most fundamental issue of our times: how does one build a global world order and societies that are inclusive, cohesive and capable of managing interests of all stakeholders as well as political, cultural, ethnic and religious differences in ways that all are recognized without prejudice and/or discrimination?” —Prof. James Dorsey, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Author:   Alan Chong ,  Quang Minh Pham
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.473kg
ISBN:  

9789811320972


ISBN 10:   9811320977
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   25 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Critical Perspectives from Outside China on the Belt and Road Initiative: An IntroductionPart I Imagining the Silk Roads Through Philosophy and History.2. Squaring the Circle: China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”(BRI) and the Ancient Silk Roads3. Mercantile Harmony: The Ancient Silk Roads as Intercultural Meeting Points Amongst Monks, Pilgrims and MerchantsPart II Critical Geographies on the Road4. The Belt and Road and the World: Why China’s “One Belt, One Road” Initiative Is a Dilemma for Everyone5. Infrastructure Construction as Empire Consolidation in Chinese History6. Rail Developments Under the BRIPart III Critical Political Economy on the Road7. The Belt and Road Initiative and China’s Relations with Iran and Saudi Arabia: A Delicate Balancing Act8. Australia and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Economic Opportunities and Geo-Strategic Concerns9. Legal Challenges to the Belt and Road Initiative10. Is the Economic Hegemony Moving From the United  States to China?: A Historical Perspective11. China’s Belt and Road Initiative: China’s Motivations and Its Impacts On Developing CountriesPart IV Critical National Perspectives12. US Attitudes and Reactions Towards China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative13. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Challenges  and Opportunities for Vietnam14. Conclusion

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Alan Chong is Associate Professor at the Centre for Multilateralism Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. He has published widely on the notion of soft power and the role of ideas in constructing the international relations of Singapore and Asia.  Pham Quang Minh is Professor of History and Politics at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), Vietnam National University-Hanoi. His main teaching and research interests, among the other things, are world politics, international relations of Asia-Pacific, and Vietnam’s foreign policy.

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