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China's Belt and Road Initiative

Views from the ground

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ID5719477
AuthorsGustavo De L T Oliveira (0000-0002-1800-227X, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author), Galen Murton (0000-0003-1706-891X, James Madison University), A Rippa (0000-0002-9533-3988, Tallinn University), Tyler Harlan (0000-0001-5150-3554, Loyola Marymount University), Yang (0000-0002-9787-5617), Yang Yang (0000-0002-3705-7612, National University of Singapore)
Year2020
Volume82
Pages102225
Publication date2020-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0962-6298 • E-ISSN: 1873-5096
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102225
PMID32836922
OpenAlexW3047436054
LanguageEN
Citations received100
References cited34

a bundle of intertwined discourses, policies, and projects that sometimes align but are sometimes contradictory. We move beyond policy-level, macro-economic, and classic geopolitical analysis to study China's global investments "from the ground". Our case studies reveal the BRI to be dynamic and unstable, rhetorically appropriated for different purposes that sometimes but do not always coalesce as a coherent geopolitical and geoeconomic strategy. The papers in this special issue provide one of the first collections of deep empirical work on the BRI and a useful approach for grounding China's role in globalization in the critical contexts of complex local realities

Beijing · China · Common ground · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geopolitics · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Sociology · China's Global Influence and Migration · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Engineering · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration

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