A “Mah-Kinder” geopolitical explanation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11222636 |
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| Authors | Adam Leong Kok Wey (0000-0001-6079-4007, National Defence University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 203-211 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Strategy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-5933 • E-ISSN: 1521-0448 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01495933.2021.2017745 |
| OpenAlex | W4283383600 |
| Language | EN |
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has garnered a lot of attention, and worries about its impact and influence over Eurasia and Indo-Pacific. Two classical geopoliticians – Halford J. Mackinder and Alfred Thayer Mahan – had provided useful frameworks to explain China’s BRI geopolitical implications, and geostrategies to dominate the Eurasian continent and Indo-Pacific waterways with economic tools and infrastructure projects. This article claims that China’s BRI is a testament of the exceptional explanatory power of classical geopolitical theories in the practice of grand strategy in international politics
China · Economics · Economy · Geography · Geopolitics · International relations · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Belt and Road Initiative · China's Global Influence and Migration · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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