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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle Upon Tyne :
Agenda Publishing,
2022.
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Colección: | Business with China.
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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