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Belt and Road The First Decade.

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most talked about and little understood policy initiatives of China. This short book offers a comprehensive, balanced and policy-oriented analysis of the BRI and what it means for western businesses and polities.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rogelja, Igor
Otros Autores: Tsimonis, Konstantinos
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle Upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2022.
Colección:Business with China.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Acronyms and abbreviations
  • 1 What is this book about?
  • Why does the BRI matter?
  • Our approach
  • Questions and outline
  • 2 How is the BRI organized?
  • The BRI's ecosystem: state capitalism and policy predecessors
  • Who's who
  • Xi Jinping and individual leaders
  • Leading Small Group for Promoting the Construction of the BRI (LSG)
  • National Development Reform Commission (NDRC)
  • State-owned Asset Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC)
  • State-owned enterprises (SOEs)
  • Provincial governments
  • China's BRI banks
  • Hierarchy and layering
  • Different things to different people
  • 3 Is it China's grand strategy?
  • A new Monroe Doctrine and a Marshall Plan 2.0?
  • A hegemonic project?
  • Pragmatic responses to geopolitical dilemmas
  • A new normative order?
  • Not a grand strategy?
  • 4 Is it green?
  • Material outcomes
  • Displacement of pollution
  • Depletion of resources
  • Destruction of biodiversity
  • Material side-effects
  • Normative outcomes
  • Normative side-effects
  • A green future for the BRI?
  • 5 Is it corrupt by design?
  • State capitalism and corruption
  • From cadres to capitalists
  • A Belt and Road of corruption?
  • The Angola Model
  • What terms, what standards?
  • Cleaning up
  • The challenge of BRI 2.0
  • 6 Is it socially responsible?
  • Human rights and the BRI
  • The "Sinification" of industrial relations?
  • The long road towards responsible development
  • Conclusion: is there a future for the BRI?
  • Globalizing the state sector
  • The resilience of the BRI
  • References
  • Index