Mapping China's 'One Belt One Road' Initiative

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Mapping China's 'One Belt One Road' Initiative

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Maps the internal policy implications of the 'One Belt One Road’ (OBOR) initiative for all effected countries
Analyzes the likely impact of the OBOR initiative on the IPE infrastructure between effected countries
Provides insight into how security, geopolitical and geoeconomic issues may prevent countries from fully participating in the OBOR initiative
Considers what changes to directly implicated countries will mean for the balance of resources and power globally
Equips policy-makers of stakeholder countries with the knowledge and conceptual tools for effective governance

This book sets out to analyze how the OBOR initiative will influence the world’s geo-political and geo-economic environment, with specific regard to the ‘Belt and Road’ countries and regions. It evaluates what opportunities the OBOR can offer them in light of the constraints they face, paying particular attention to how security issues may keep some nations from fully participating. Questions are also asked about the tension and conflict along the ‘Belt’ and ‘Road’, which, after all takes in the Middle East’s most tumultuous regions, as well as the much disputed South China Sea. Finally, consideration is given as to how the world’s other economic powers will react when the OBOR inevitably brings about capital and resource competitions.

China’s Pursuit of the “One Belt One Road” Initiative: A New World Order with Chinese Characteristics?

Xing, Li

Pages 1-27
Understanding the Multiple Facets of China’s “One Belt One Road” Initiative

Xing, Li

Pages 29-56
A Framework for the Study of the One Belt One Road Initiative as a Medium of Principle Diffusion

Vangeli, Anastas

Pages 57-89
The One Belt One Road Initiative and China’s Multilayered Multilateralism

Yuan, Feng

Pages 91-116
The One Belt One Road Initiative and the Changing Multi-scalar Governance of Trade in China

Kettunen, Erja

Pages 117-141
China’s Momentum: The “One Belt One Road” Triple’s Securitisation

Duarte, Paulo

Pages 143-165
Unpacking Economic Motivations and Non-economic Consequences of Connectivity Infrastructure Under OBOR

Passi, Ritika

Pages 167-195
The One Belt One Road Initiative: Reintegrating Africa and the Middle East into China’s System of Accumulation

Merwe, Justin

Pages 197-217
Changing Regional Order and Railway Diplomacy in Southeast Asia with a Case Study of Thailand

Lauridsen, Laurids S.

Pages 219-248
A Power Shift Underway in Europe? China’s Relationship with Central and Eastern Europe Under the Belt and Road Initiative

Pavlićević, Dragan

Pages 249-278
Conclusion: The One Belt One Road in the Politics of Fear and Hope

Xing, Li (et al.)

Li Xing is Professor and Director of the Research Centre on Development and International Relations at the Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Journal of China and International Studies.