The Belt and Road Initiative: Exploring Beijing’s Motivations and Challenges for its New Silk Road

Clarke, Michael

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“…Hillman (2018), notes, for example, 'BRI is more a brand than a master plan with specific criteria for project inclusion' (p. 5). For example, it is allegedly integrated with the establishment of multilateral development banks (particularly the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB) and cross-regional economic cooperation programs (Clarke, 2018).…”

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Policy, institutional fragility, and Chinese outward foreign direct investment: An empirical examination of the Belt and Road Initiative

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Section: What Are the Impacts Of The Bri When Accompanied By Explicit Outward Fdi Promotion? The Further Moderating Impact Of China's Ovementioning

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Policy, institutional fragility, and Chinese outward foreign direct investment: An empirical examination of the Belt and Road Initiative

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“…When China first announced the BRI, it was vague about its purpose. Not surprisingly, then, analysts spent considerable time speculating about its "true" rationales [36,44,69,110,114]. For some, it is borne out of China's domestic economic needs which include bigger markets, improved resource security, and opportunities for Chinese multinational corporations (MNCs) [5,20,35,43,126,130,141].…”

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Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas

Blanchard

2021

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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This piece examines and critiques the massive literature on China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It details how research currently seems stuck on the road to nowhere. In addition, it identifies a number of the potholes that collective research endeavors are hitting such as that they are poorly synchronized. It also stresses that lines of analysis are proliferating rather than optimizing, with studies broadening in thematic coverage, rather than becoming deeper. It points out that BRI participants are regularly related to the role of a bit player in many analyses and research often is disconnected from other literatures. Among other things, this article recommends analysts focus on the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) or Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) in specific regions or countries. It also argues for a research core that focuses on the implementation issue (i.e., the issue of MSRI and SREB project implementation), project effects (i.e., the economic and political costs and benefits of projects), and the translation issue (i.e., the domestic and foreign policy effects of projects) and does work that goes beyond the usual suspects. On a related note, research need to identify, more precisely, participants and projects, undertake causal analysis, and take into account countervailing factors. Furthermore, studies need to make more extensive use of the Chinese foreign policy literature. Moreover, works examining subjects like soft power need to improve variable conceptualization and operationalization and deliver more nuanced analyses. Finally, studies, especially by area specialists, should take the area, not the China, perspective.

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“…Una de las motivaciones centrales de bri se relaciona directamente con los objetivos, condiciones y demandas de la economía doméstica. Algunos de los intereses que impulsan el plan son la necesidad de consumir el exceso de capacidad industrial de China, expandir o encontrar nuevos mercados para las exportaciones, la necesidad de asegurar el acceso a los recursos naturales y encontrar nuevos usos para el excedente (Clarke, 2018;Yu, 2018). Como señala Zhou (2019), bri complementa la reestructuración económica de China y viceversa.…”

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Diplomacia económica: Aproximaciones conceptuales y su aplicación en la política de Xi Jinping hacia el Sur Global

Rubiolo¹,

Busilli²

2021

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La economía política internacional (EPI) se focaliza en precisar cómo las estructuras de intereses, poder y finanzas afectan las relaciones económicas entre Estados. Una corriente más reciente de esa literatura se ocupa de la diplomacia económica. El diferencial de este concepto radica en la utilización de instrumentos económicos para perseguir objetivos políticos. Desde finales de los noventa, y con mayor impulso a partir de la crisis de 2008, el ascenso económico y la proyección internacional de China están acompañados por una mayor disposición del uso de herramientas de diplomacia económica en función de objetivos internos y externos. La Iniciativa de la Franja y la Ruta (BRI) es un claro ejemplo de esta articulación, con especial incidencia en las regiones del Sur Global. Este estudio analiza los conceptos vinculados a diplomacia económica para luego profundizar en su articulación con la política exterior de Xi Jinping, y su proyección hacia el Sur Global. Concluye que Beijing intenta desarrollar y proyectar su poder económico a través del BRI, tanto en su periferia, como en el resto del globo. Asimismo, también responde a objetivos de naturaleza doméstica, vinculado a su proceso modernizador.

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The Belt and Road Initiative: Exploring Beijing’s Motivations and Challenges for its New Silk Road

Cited by 45 publications

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Policy, institutional fragility, and Chinese outward foreign direct investment: An empirical examination of the Belt and Road Initiative

Policy, institutional fragility, and Chinese outward foreign direct investment: An empirical examination of the Belt and Road Initiative

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas

Diplomacia económica: Aproximaciones conceptuales y su aplicación en la política de Xi Jinping hacia el Sur Global

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