China's Belt and Road Initiative : strategic and economic impacts on Central Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Eastern Europe / edited by Alfred Gerstl and Ute Wallenböck. - 1 online resource (xvi, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Rethinking Asia and international relations .

Introduction : Making analytically sense of the Belt and Road Initiative : a plea for multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches and eclecticism / Alfred Gerstl and Ute Wallenböck -- The Belt and Road Initiative post-April 2019 : plus ça change! / Vijay Nambiar -- Thoughts on appropriate approaches to studying BRI's actual impacts and limits / Yu-Wen Chen -- The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative and its impact on democratization and de-democratization processes / Wolfram Schaffar -- China's faltering normative power drive in Kazakhstan / Gaziza Shakhanova and Jeremy Garlick -- Malaysia and the Belt and Road Initiative : balancing between economic utility and diplomatic expediency / Farizal Mohd Razalli -- Chinese grand strategy and the Belt and Road Initiative : the case of Southeast Asia / Tanguy Struye de Swielande and Kimberly Orinx -- The BRI, logistics, and global infrastructure : new world order, the game of go and the dispositif of shi / Joyce C.H. Liu -- China and the USA in Central Asia : competing actors with different goals? / Alica Kizeková -- Rail development potential in Asia in the frame of the Belt and Road Initiative : what Market? / Frédéric Lasserre, Eric Mottet and Linyan Huang -- From railway dreams to reality check : achievements and challenges of Sino-Polish relations at the local level : the case of Łódź-Sichuan partnership / Bartosz Kowalski -- Economic (policy) implications of the Belt and Road Initiative for Central, East and Southeast Europe / Julia Grübler and Robert Stehrer.

"This transdisciplinary volume explores the concept of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the theoretical approaches used to examine it and its strategic, security and economic impacts in Central and Southeast Asia and Central Eastern Europe"--

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Yi dai yi lu (Initiative : China)


Asian cooperation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization


China--Foreign economic relations.

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