The Geopolitics of China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4829161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-Marc F Blanchard (East China Normal University), Jean‐marc F Blanchard (0000-0003-0793-3375, East China Normal University, corresponding author), Courtney Flint (0000-0002-8867-942X, Utah State University), Colin Flint |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 223-245 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2017.1291503 |
| OpenAlex | W2605602037 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 132 |
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 of soft infrastructure, such as free trade and investment agreements, and other accords. We introduce a special section focusing specifically on the geopolitics of the MSRI that stems from a workshop hosted in November 2015 in Shanghai. The origins, scope and content of the MSRI are described, along with a summary of the current literature discussing the project, and dominant geopolitical representations. The MSRI is a geopolitical project that involves a number of actors (governments, private companies and Chinese state-owned enterprises) at a number of geographic scales (cities, provinces, states and continents). Arrghi’s twin logics of territorial and economic power help frame and connect the papers of the special section to illustrate the complexity and dynamism of the geopolitics of the MSRI. The articles provide insights into the geopolitics of a large connectivity project
Archaeology · China · Civil engineering · Dynamism · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · Geopolitics · Physics · Political science · Politics · Regional science · China's Global Influence and Migration · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Computer Science · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Engineering
From Tunisia to Africa
The ‘Belt and Road’ initiative and China–Africa relations
Paris vs. Beijing
Geo-Economic Linkages between China and the Countries along the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road and Their Types
China-Kenya Relations with a Focus on the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) within a Perspective of Broad China-Africa Relations
Middle Kingdom Enters Middle East
Myanmar’s Role in China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative
China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States
China between Iran and the Gulf Monarchies
The Chinese Maritime Silk Road Initiative
Concrete and coal
Közép-Ázsia közlekedése
Strategic coupling beyond borders
Reordering China, Respacing the World
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and Strategic Hedging amid China-US Rivalry
Rescaling Geoeconomics
Making Geoeconomics an IR Research Program
Wind of change
A comprehensive overview of China's belt and road initiative and its implication for the region and beyond
Geopolitical Risk Evolution and Obstacle Factors of Countries along the Belt and Road and Its Types Classification
Museums, Geopolitics, and Relational Localisation
La Iniciativa de la Franja y la Ruta como modelo complementario al desarrollo
The framing of the Belt and Road Initiative in Indo-Pakistani media
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Agricultural Development in Southeast Asia
China’s Balancing Behaviour Against the United States and the Special Importance of Myanmar
Chinese network power and patronage embeddedness in Indonesia
China–Latin America relations in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative
The Geopolitics of Culture
Belt and road initiative and Chinese cross‐border mergers and acquisitions
The construction and governance of regional maritime security order in the South China Sea
Negotiating coastal infrastructures
China’s 21st century maritime silk road
Sustainable development and win-win cooperation in Asian marine tourism
Building a ‘community of common destiny’? Contested geopolitical imaginations of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia
China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia and its implications for Asean-China strategic partnership
Class, caste and religion
China’s paradiplomacy
The US dollar and its challenges
Himalayan BRI
Banking ‘development’
Beyond the spatial fix
The iron Silk Road
Telling the China Story Well
China–Japan Competition in Infrastructure Investment in Southeast Asia
New imagined geographies into old geobodies
Sustaining China-Africa relations
Understanding Indonesia's role in the ‘Asean Outlook on the Indo‐Pacific’
Towards a Confucian geopolitics
Confucian geopolitics or Chinese geopolitics
Maritime security and the Blue Economy
An instrument to assess Blue Economy entrepreneurship ecosystems
The Slippery Pearl
China's Post-Cold War Economic Statecraft
The Political Economy of the Chinese Model in Ethiopia
Exploring China’s borderlands in an era of BRI-induced change
Theorising from the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路)
The Aesthetic Power of Ships in International Political Communication
Shades of Red
Beijing’s institutional-balancing strategies
The relationality of geopolitical codes
The Business Practices of a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise in Myanmar’s Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone
China–Pakistan Maritime Cooperation in the Indian Ocean
China’s Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia and the Indian Response
China’s growing digital reach
Polarization among the Asean member states
Port power 02
The Trans-Caspian Corridor – Geopolitical implications and transport opportunities
Structures of port connectivity, competition, and shipping networks in Europe
Port power
Transport geography and geopolitics
Gendering the BRI
A frame analysis of political-media discourse on the Belt and Road Initiative
China, the BRICS, and the limitations of reshaping global economic governance
Les déclinaisons de la Belt and Road Initiative en Eurasie
Political geography III
Continental metropolitanization
China’s Strategic Partnership with Kuwait
The Significant Role of Oman in China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia
Large Ocean States
Maritime Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation Mechanisms
BRI as cognitive empire
China’s MSRI in Africa and the Middle East
Egypt in China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative
Does Brexit Influence China’s “One Belt One Road” Initiative
Where and how can Africa and India leverage the blue economy opportunities of the Indian Ocean region as a driver for sustainable development and partnerships
Tianxia Under the Sea
The linchpin of Eurasia
Theorizing China-world integration
Road through a broken place
Cambodia’s foreign policy (re)alignments amid great power geopolitical competition
The BRI in Pakistan’s power sector
China’s belt and road initiative
The geopolitics of the belt and road initiative and Imec in the Middle East
Cities bound, bounded, boundless
Rethinking Tourism Reform
China’s Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) in South Asia and Its Policy Challenges to India in the Region
Locating the ‘South’ in China’s connectivity politics
From Yekaterinburg to Brasilia
Provincial Governance and Variation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
| Unique citing works | 132 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 14,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 120 |