Jean-Marc F Blanchard
Biographic Data
| ID | 729592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Marc F Blanchard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Marc F |
| FAMILY NAME | Blanchard |
| SIGNATURE | BLANCHARD J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | East China Normal University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The United States - China Rivalry and the BRI
The article describes the United States - China rivalry and Chinas Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) through a fine-grained review of primary materials such as major US policy documents and speeches by and media interviews with key American foreign policy decisionmakers, as well as the selective use of secondary materials such as think tank studies and articles in scholarly publications. It shows that the BRI has fueled the bilateral rivalry since i…
China’s MSRI in Africa and the Middle East: Political Economic Realities Continue to Shape Results and Ramifications
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas
This piece examines and critiques the massive literature on China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It details how research currently seems stuck on the road to nowhere. In addition, it identifies a number of the potholes that collective research endeavors are hitting such as that they are poorly synchronized. It also stresses that lines of analysis are proliferating rather than optimizing, with studies broadening in thematic coverage, …
Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East
China’s Role in Global Economic Governance Revisited: Evidence from a Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Japanese BITs
A large proportion of debates about China’s impacts on global economic governance lack systematic empirical analysis. We engage the debate about if China is a revolutionary, revisionist, or status quo state through a deep dive into China’s behaviors with respect to Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). This research strategy is à propos because BITs represent the de facto regime governing foreign direct investment (FDI) globally, and China is the…
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative, Africa, and the Middle East: Feats, Freezes, and Failures
China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Southeast Asia: Dilemmas, Doubts, and Determination
Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East
The raging debate about China’s mega Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) falls into two extreme camps, those that forecast earthshattering effects and those, focused on the MSRI’s numerous contemporary challenges, that see China’s scheme as stagnating or failing. This study plunges into the debate by conducting a macro- and micro-level analysis of the MSRI. The macro-level analysis indicates that the MSRI is not having transformative economic ef…
The Politics of Latin America’s Investment and Other Links with China: Contextualizing the Region’s Cash Chasing while Racking Richer Research Rewards
Brazil’s Samba with China: Economics Brought Them Closer, but Failed to Ensure their Tango
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) and Southeast Asia: A Chinese ‘pond’ not ‘lake’ in the Works
There is raging speculation about the potential implications of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR)/Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for the global order, spheres of influence and the positions of extra-regional powers. Much commentary is overly broad and lacks a clear and systematic method for examining OBOR/BRI’s future consequences. Focusing on the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), a major OBOR/BRI component, in the Southeast Asian context, th…
Wen Xiao and Liyun Liu, Internationalization of China’s Privately Owned Enterprises: Determinants and Pattern Selection
Probing China's Twenty-First-Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): An Examination of MSRI Narratives
This article reviews the literature on China’s twenty-first-century Maritime Silk Road initiative (MSRI) to highlight the narratives surrounding it, its central features, its potential objectives, and the challenges affecting its implementation. It demonstrates that there are numerous political and economic narratives about the MSRI. It further indicates Beijing’s aims to use the MSRI to achieve manifold economic and political ends. Distinct from…
The Geopolitics of China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative
China’s “One Belt, One Road” project is comprised of two components: the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) and the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB)—that were announced separately in 2013. Each component has the potential to transform the global geopolitical landscape through the construction of interrelated infrastructure projects including ports, highways, railways and pipelines. Such hard infrastructure requires the complementary construction …
Tom Miller, China’s Urban Billion: The Story behind the Biggest Migration in Human History
The People’s Republic of China Leadership Transition and its External Relations: Still Searching for Definitive Answers
Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy: Sanctions, Incentives, and Target State Calculations
Thinking Hard About Soft Power: A Review and Critique of the Literature on China and Soft Power
This article critically reviews the literature on China and soft power. Among other themes, it tackles the conceptualization and operationalization of soft power, measurement of the effectiveness of Chinese soft power, and the analysis of variables that intervene between China's soft-power tools, realized images, and policy influence results.
Chinese MNCs as China’s New Long March: A Review and Critique of the Western Literature
Harmonious World and China’s Foreign Economic Policy: Features, Implications, and Challenges
Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era . Allen Carlson
Linking Border Disputes and War: An Institutional-Statist Theory
Boundary disputes are among the most explosive international flashpoints. They frequently correlate with militarised interstate disputes and are more likely to lead to high intensity conflict than other kinds of frictions. Although analysts have been turning increasing attention to the topic of boundary tensions, significant knowledge gaps remain. We still do not know exactly what factors cause some border controversies to emerge or spur others t…
East Asia's Slow Recovery from Financial Crisis
Given East Asia's positive economic attributes, it is easy to conclude that the region's long-term economic future will be bright. ... Unfortunately, the capacity and political will to implement the right choices may be lacking
Lightning Rods Rather Than Light Switches: Arab Economic Sanctions against Canada in 1979
The literature on economic sanctions consists of a series of studies assessing whether sanctions ''worked'' or not. Very little has been written on the factors that make economic sanctions more effective at achieving their intended purposes. This article examines the threatened 1979 Arab world boycott of Canada after Prime Minister Joe Clark announced the government's intention to relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. After d…
The Geopolitics of China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative
China’s “One Belt, One Road” project is comprised of two components: the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) and the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB)—that were announced separately in 2013. Each component has the potential to transform the global geopolitical landscape through the construction of interrelated infrastructure projects including ports, highways, railways and pipelines. Such hard infrastructure requires the complementary construction …
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) and Southeast Asia: A Chinese ‘pond’ not ‘lake’ in the Works
There is raging speculation about the potential implications of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR)/Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for the global order, spheres of influence and the positions of extra-regional powers. Much commentary is overly broad and lacks a clear and systematic method for examining OBOR/BRI’s future consequences. Focusing on the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), a major OBOR/BRI component, in the Southeast Asian context, th…
Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East
The raging debate about China’s mega Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) falls into two extreme camps, those that forecast earthshattering effects and those, focused on the MSRI’s numerous contemporary challenges, that see China’s scheme as stagnating or failing. This study plunges into the debate by conducting a macro- and micro-level analysis of the MSRI. The macro-level analysis indicates that the MSRI is not having transformative economic ef…
Probing China's Twenty-First-Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): An Examination of MSRI Narratives
This article reviews the literature on China’s twenty-first-century Maritime Silk Road initiative (MSRI) to highlight the narratives surrounding it, its central features, its potential objectives, and the challenges affecting its implementation. It demonstrates that there are numerous political and economic narratives about the MSRI. It further indicates Beijing’s aims to use the MSRI to achieve manifold economic and political ends. Distinct from…
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative, Africa, and the Middle East: Feats, Freezes, and Failures
Linking Border Disputes and War: An Institutional-Statist Theory
Boundary disputes are among the most explosive international flashpoints. They frequently correlate with militarised interstate disputes and are more likely to lead to high intensity conflict than other kinds of frictions. Although analysts have been turning increasing attention to the topic of boundary tensions, significant knowledge gaps remain. We still do not know exactly what factors cause some border controversies to emerge or spur others t…
Harmonious World and China’s Foreign Economic Policy: Features, Implications, and Challenges
Lightning Rods Rather Than Light Switches: Arab Economic Sanctions against Canada in 1979
The literature on economic sanctions consists of a series of studies assessing whether sanctions ''worked'' or not. Very little has been written on the factors that make economic sanctions more effective at achieving their intended purposes. This article examines the threatened 1979 Arab world boycott of Canada after Prime Minister Joe Clark announced the government's intention to relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. After d…
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas
This piece examines and critiques the massive literature on China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It details how research currently seems stuck on the road to nowhere. In addition, it identifies a number of the potholes that collective research endeavors are hitting such as that they are poorly synchronized. It also stresses that lines of analysis are proliferating rather than optimizing, with studies broadening in thematic coverage, …
Brazil’s Samba with China: Economics Brought Them Closer, but Failed to Ensure their Tango
The People’s Republic of China Leadership Transition and its External Relations: Still Searching for Definitive Answers
The Heyday of Beijing's Participation in the Tumen River Area Development Programme, 1990‐95: A political explanation
From 1990 to 1995, Beijing was an active participant in the Tumen River Area Development Programme (TRADP), a multinational economic scheme to develop the region around the Tumen River Delta. Indeed, it is reasonable to characterize China as the most supportive of all the countries involved in the TRADP during this period. An economic-centered account cannot adequately explain Beijing's involvement because the TRADP never offered China meaningful…
Red Flag over Hong Kong
Part 1 Background to Hong Kong - to go or stay? - an overview of Hong Kong: the sweet and sour of China words have meaning, or do they?. Part 2 forecasting the future - China after Deng: the future of Hong Kong fortune cookies. Appendixes
The U.S. Role in the Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands, 1945–1971
In 1996, the Sino-Japanese conflict over the Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands intensified to the point where the American mass circulation periodical Time asked: “Will the next Asian war be fought over a few tiny islands?” That such a question could be asked seems incredible given that the Diaoyu Islands, which lie north-east of Taiwan and west of Okinawa, consist of only five small islands and three rocky outcroppings with a total landmass of no more th…
The Heyday of Beijing's Participation in the Tumen River Area Development Programme, 1990‐95: A political explanation
From 1990 to 1995, Beijing was an active participant in the Tumen River Area Development Programme (TRADP), a multinational economic scheme to develop the region around the Tumen River Delta. Indeed, it is reasonable to characterize China as the most supportive of all the countries involved in the TRADP during this period. An economic-centered account cannot adequately explain Beijing's involvement because the TRADP never offered China meaningful…
Lightning Rods Rather Than Light Switches: Arab Economic Sanctions against Canada in 1979
The literature on economic sanctions consists of a series of studies assessing whether sanctions ''worked'' or not. Very little has been written on the factors that make economic sanctions more effective at achieving their intended purposes. This article examines the threatened 1979 Arab world boycott of Canada after Prime Minister Joe Clark announced the government's intention to relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. After d…
East Asia's Slow Recovery from Financial Crisis
Given East Asia's positive economic attributes, it is easy to conclude that the region's long-term economic future will be bright. ... Unfortunately, the capacity and political will to implement the right choices may be lacking
Linking Border Disputes and War: An Institutional-Statist Theory
Boundary disputes are among the most explosive international flashpoints. They frequently correlate with militarised interstate disputes and are more likely to lead to high intensity conflict than other kinds of frictions. Although analysts have been turning increasing attention to the topic of boundary tensions, significant knowledge gaps remain. We still do not know exactly what factors cause some border controversies to emerge or spur others t…
Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era . Allen Carlson
Harmonious World and China’s Foreign Economic Policy: Features, Implications, and Challenges
Chinese MNCs as China’s New Long March: A Review and Critique of the Western Literature
Thinking Hard About Soft Power: A Review and Critique of the Literature on China and Soft Power
This article critically reviews the literature on China and soft power. Among other themes, it tackles the conceptualization and operationalization of soft power, measurement of the effectiveness of Chinese soft power, and the analysis of variables that intervene between China's soft-power tools, realized images, and policy influence results.
Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy: Sanctions, Incentives, and Target State Calculations
Tom Miller, China’s Urban Billion: The Story behind the Biggest Migration in Human History
The People’s Republic of China Leadership Transition and its External Relations: Still Searching for Definitive Answers
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) and Southeast Asia: A Chinese ‘pond’ not ‘lake’ in the Works
There is raging speculation about the potential implications of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR)/Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for the global order, spheres of influence and the positions of extra-regional powers. Much commentary is overly broad and lacks a clear and systematic method for examining OBOR/BRI’s future consequences. Focusing on the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), a major OBOR/BRI component, in the Southeast Asian context, th…
Wen Xiao and Liyun Liu, Internationalization of China’s Privately Owned Enterprises: Determinants and Pattern Selection
Probing China's Twenty-First-Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): An Examination of MSRI Narratives
This article reviews the literature on China’s twenty-first-century Maritime Silk Road initiative (MSRI) to highlight the narratives surrounding it, its central features, its potential objectives, and the challenges affecting its implementation. It demonstrates that there are numerous political and economic narratives about the MSRI. It further indicates Beijing’s aims to use the MSRI to achieve manifold economic and political ends. Distinct from…
The Geopolitics of China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative
China’s “One Belt, One Road” project is comprised of two components: the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) and the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB)—that were announced separately in 2013. Each component has the potential to transform the global geopolitical landscape through the construction of interrelated infrastructure projects including ports, highways, railways and pipelines. Such hard infrastructure requires the complementary construction …
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia
China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Southeast Asia: Dilemmas, Doubts, and Determination
Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East
The raging debate about China’s mega Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) falls into two extreme camps, those that forecast earthshattering effects and those, focused on the MSRI’s numerous contemporary challenges, that see China’s scheme as stagnating or failing. This study plunges into the debate by conducting a macro- and micro-level analysis of the MSRI. The macro-level analysis indicates that the MSRI is not having transformative economic ef…
The Politics of Latin America’s Investment and Other Links with China: Contextualizing the Region’s Cash Chasing while Racking Richer Research Rewards
Brazil’s Samba with China: Economics Brought Them Closer, but Failed to Ensure their Tango
Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East
China’s Role in Global Economic Governance Revisited: Evidence from a Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Japanese BITs
A large proportion of debates about China’s impacts on global economic governance lack systematic empirical analysis. We engage the debate about if China is a revolutionary, revisionist, or status quo state through a deep dive into China’s behaviors with respect to Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). This research strategy is à propos because BITs represent the de facto regime governing foreign direct investment (FDI) globally, and China is the…
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative, Africa, and the Middle East: Feats, Freezes, and Failures
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