1st Edition

The Geopolitics of China's Belt and Road Initiative

By Theodor Tudoroiu Copyright 2024
326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

This book argues that China’s Belt and Road Initiative should be seen more as a geopolitical project and less as a global economic project, with China aiming to bring about a new Chinese-led international order. It contends that China’s international approach has two personas – an aggressive one, focusing on a nineteenth century-style territorial empire, which is applied to Taiwan and the seas... Read more

Chapter 1       Introduction

 

Chapter 2       International Order, Grand Strategy, and China

 

Chapter 3       Geopolitics

 

Chapter 4       Normative Power, Relationality, Chinese Socialization, and an Alternative Geopolitical Approach

 

Chapter 5       The Belt and Road Initiative

 

Chapter 6       Sri Lanka and the Geopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative

 

Chapter 7       The BRI and the Sino-American Confrontation

 

Index

Biography

Theodor Tudoroiu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago.