Rethinking the Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging Eurasian Relations

Rethinking the Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging Eurasian Relations

By Maximilian Mayer
Palgrave Macmillan_ December 2017

Specifications

ISBN-13
9789811059148
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan_
Publication
December 2017
Format
Hardback , 287 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

  • Assesses the new role and ambitions in world affairs by China’s new leadership
  • Offers the first theory-driven collection of perspectives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative
  • Provides comparative, regional, national, and theoretical perspectives on China’s most ambitious foreign policy project

 

Focused on the "Belt and Road Initiative", this book discusses China’s opportunities to translate economic leverage into political outcomes. The central question is how China’s expanding economic influence will transform the Eurasian political landscape. Proposed in late 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the Belt and Road is the most ambitious foreign policy approach adopted thus far and represents the culmination of China’s search for a grand strategic narrative. Comparative methods and diverse conceptual frameworks are applied to contextualize and explore the political, economic, and cultural ramifications of the Belt and Road in order to shed light on its transformative significance, risks and opportunities.

Table of Contents

China’s Rise as Eurasian Power: The Revival of the Silk Road and Its Consequences

Mayer, Maximilian

Pages 1-42
The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the Leading Function of the Shipping Industry

Zhang, Hu

Pages 43-55
Connectivity and International Law in the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road

Zhang, Guobin (et al.)

Pages 57-68
Special Economic Zones: Integrating African Countries in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Demissie, Alexander

Pages 69-84
Connectivity and Regional Integration: Prospects for Sino-Indian Cooperation

Baruah, Darshana M. (et al.)

Pages 85-98
Africa in the Maritime Silk Road: Challenges and Prospects

Jian, Junbo

Pages 99-114
The Belt and Road Initiative and Comprehensive Regionalism in Central Asia

Qoraboyev, Ikboljon (et al.)

Pages 115-130
The New Silk Road for China and Japan: Building on Shared Legacies

Jiang, Yang

Pages 131-146
Knowledge-Based Institutions in Sino-Arctic Engagement: Lessons for the Belt and Road Initiative

Bertelsen, Rasmus Gjedssø (et al.)

Pages 147-160
Chinese Investments in European Countries: Experiences and Lessons for the “Belt and Road” Initiative

Corre, Philippe

Pages 161-175
Former Empires, Rising Powers: Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanism and China’s New Silk Road

Fisher Onar, Nora

Pages 177-190
Knowing the World: International and Chinese Perspectives on the Disciplinarization of Country and Area Studies

Hu, Chunchun

Pages 191-203
Modern Silk Road Imaginaries and the Co-production of Space

Mayer, Maximilian (et al.)

Pages 205-226
Berlin Looking Eastward: German Views of and Expectations from the New Silk Road

Röhr, Wolfgang

Pages 227-246
The Geopolitical Significance of Sino-Russian Cooperation in Central Asia for the Belt and Road Initiative

Fels, Enrico

Pages 247-267
Changing International System Structures and the Belt and Road Initiative

Wang, Chuanxing

Pages 269-279

About the Author

Maximilian Mayer is a research professor at the German Studies Center of Tongji University,China. He is co-editor of the two-volume The Global Politics of Science and Technology and Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics. His research interests include the global politics of technoscience and innovation, China’s foreign and energy policy, global climate politics, and International Relations theories.

Reviews

"Mayer provides a compelling rationale to focusing on China’s grand ambitions in the context of China’s external relations. It is a rare combination of nuanced historical narratives with detailed empirical studies and comparative frameworks. This brilliant and thoughtful book tackles the most important question facing the world in the 21st century—China’s future grand strategy. It should be a must-read for serious scholars and policy makers around the world who are interested in or concerned about China’s rise." (Dingding Chen, Professor of International Relations, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China) "China’s belt and road initiative makes a turning point in China’s search for a grand strategic narrative and in the debates about China’s rise. This excellent collection of papers combines a series of in-depth empirical studies from the perspective of China’s relationships with key countries and regions, with systematic exploration of theoretical frameworks for understanding the initiative. It will be a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars alike." (Tim Summers, Chatham House, Asia Program)

"The study has the advantage of addressing the project in a comprehensive manner from different national perspectives. There have been dozens of works analyzing various aspects of the project, but few take such a comprehensive approach and so this study should be read by anyone interested in the geopolitics of the Eurasian landmass and the oceans bordering it on the east and south." (Walter K. Andersen, Director of South Asia Studies Program, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University)

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