1st Edition

China’s Belt and Road Initiative A Geopolitical and Geo-economic Assessment

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

The IISS Strategic Dossier China’s Belt and Road Initiative provides a geopolitical and geo-economic assessment of President Xi Jinping’s flagship foreign-policy initiative. The dossier explores the Belt and Road Initiative’s role in China’s domestic industrial strategy and in the country’s growing influence around the world. It studies how Beijing’s ambitions, management and financing of the... Read more

Introduction

1. Strategy: China’s Evolving Ambitions

2. Management: From Disorder to Direction

3. Financing: State Capitalism Overseas

4. Regions: Introduction and Comparison

North and Central Asia

South Asia

Southeast Asia

Oceania

Latin America and the Caribbean

Sub-Saharan Africa

Middle East and North Africa

Europe

Conclusion

Biography

The International Institute for Strategic Studies is an independent centre for research, information and debate on the problems of conflict, however caused, that have, or potentially have, an important military content. The staff of the Institute is international in composition and IISS work is international in its perspective and reach. The Institute is independent and stresses rigorous fact-based research with a forward-looking policy orientation that can improve wider public understanding of international security problems and influence the development of sounder public policy, and more effective business decisions in the international arena.