1st Edition
Configuring the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Power, Interests and Status
1 Introduction
China’s participation in the global financial system
Structure of the book
PART I Evolution of the AIIB
2 An integrative framework: power, interests, status and global responses
A revisionist instrument of power
A complementary institution supporting the status quo
Pursuing status and reputation
Global responses to the AIIB
An integrative framework
Conclusion
3 China and the evolution of the AIIB
Power, interests, and status
The AIIB and china’s status deficit
The launch of the AIIB
Who joins the bank?
Political and strategic loans?
Toward a multilateral institution
The AIIB and the Belt and Road Initiative
Conclusion
4 AIIB in comparative perspectives
Debates surrounding the AIIB
Power structures comparison
Institutional design
A race to the bottom?
Competition for loans
Conclusion
PART II Global responses to the AIIB
5 Asia-Pacific participation in the AIIB
How Asia and Oceania view the AIIB
India: participation and restraint
Kazakhstan: joining for an admission ticket
Indonesia: obsession with infrastructure funding
Oceania: too weak to refuse
Conclusion
6 European participation in the AIIB
Explaining Europe’s reactions to the AIIB
Probability of becoming an AIIB founding member
Germany: romantic and rational encounter
Belgium: enthusiastic but hesitant
Romania: show me the money
Conclusion
7 Countries shunning the AIIB
Imminent strategic concerns and ambiguous economic interests
United states: a looming threat ahead
Japan: stand with the patron
Taiwan: sovereignty first
Conclusion
8 Conclusion: Crouching tiger, hidden dragon
Inner ambition
Outward obedience
The AIIB and the Belt and Road Initiative
Biography
Ian Tsung-yen Chen is Associate Professor in the Institute of Political Science at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.
