1st Edition
China’s Global Reach The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Volume II
Part I: The BRI/AIIB and China’s Global Reach
1. China’s Belt-Road Initiative as the Signature of President Xi Jinping Diplomacy: Easier Said than Done
Suisheng Zhao
2. In the Shadow of Strategic Rivalry: China, America, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Xie Tao and Han Donglin
Part II: The BRI/AIIB and China’s Domestic Politics
3. Fragmentation and Mobilization, Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road in China
Min Ye
4. Rhetorical legitimation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: evidence from Chinese state media
Hai Yang, Stephan Keukeleire
5. Beijing’s Pivot West: The Convergence of Innenpolitik and Aussenpolitik on China’s ‘Belt and Road’?
Michael Clarke
6. From “Lamb Kebabs” to “Shared Joy”: cultural appropriation, ignorance and the constrained connectivity within the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative
Yangbin Chen
7. Interwoven destinies: the significance of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to the China Dream, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Xi Jinping Legacy
Anna Hayes
Part III: International Responses to the BRI/AIIB
8. Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRT): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
9. Beijing’s ‘Going Out’ Strategy and Belt and Road Initiative in the Sahel: The Case of China’s Growing Presence in Niger
Jean-Pierre Cabestan
10. Iran and the Belt and Road Initiative: Amid Hope and Fear
Mohsen Shariatinia & Hamidreza Azizi
11. Domestic Politics as Fuel for China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The Case of the Gulf Monarchies
Jonathan Fulton
12. China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States: Lessons from the Case of Djibouti.
David Styan
13. India’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB: Struggling for Relative and Absolute Gains
Fuzuo Wu
Biography
Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.
