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Great Potential, Many Pitfalls: Understanding China's Belt and Road Initiative book cover

1st Edition

Great Potential, Many Pitfalls Understanding China's Belt and Road Initiative

Edited By Bijan Omrani Copyright 2022
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s globe-girdling infrastructure and trade corridor project, is a rare watershed in international affairs. It affects, whether directly or indirectly, nearly the entire world, directly involving more than 60 countries, nearly 4.5 billion people (about two-thirds of the world’s population), up to $8 trillion, and around 40 per cent of the global... Read more

Preface

Bijan Omrani

Introduction

Michael Kugelman

1. The Belt and Road Initiative: Modernity, Geopolitics and the Developing Global Order

Shirley Yu

2. China in Central Asia: The First Strand of the Silk Road Economic Belt

Raffaello Pantucci

3. Beijing’s Response to the Belt and Road Initiative’s "Pushback": A Story of Assessment and Adaptation

Nadege Rolland

4. The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor: The Lure of Easy Financing and the Perils of Poor Planning

Arif Rafiq

5. Flawed by Design: The Challenge of Flawed Democracies to China’s Rise

James Schwemlein

6. Is the Belt and Road Initiative a Chinese Geo-Political Strategy?

Viwei Wang and Xuejun Liu

7. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor – Is it the Road to the Future?

Nalanda Roy

Biography

Bijan Omrani is Editor of the journal Asian Affairs. He is author of several books, articles, and chapters on Afghanistan and Central Asia, amongst other areas. He is an honorary associate research fellow at the University of Exeter, UK.

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