New Nationalisms and China's Belt and Road Initiative

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction

   • R. Mireille Manga Edimo, Julien Rajaoson

   Pages 1-12

3. The BRI in a Multipolar World: A Normative Tool for Cooperation or Nationalism?

   • Megumi Nishimura

   Pages 13-24

4. Margins of Autonomy in the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative: Negotiating Growth in Rural Angola

   • Brad Safarik

   Pages 25-40

5. China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Three Diverse African Countries: A Comparative Approach

   • Theo Neethling

   Pages 41-52

6. A Challenging Nation-State in the Middle East in Transition

   • Lilit Harutyunyan

   Pages 53-68

7. “New Silk Roads” in the Service of a “Great Power”? The Influence of Xi Jinping’s Operational Code in the Strategic Orientations of the People’s Republic of China

   • Okan Germiyanoglu

   Pages 69-80

8. China in Central Europe: The End of the Dream

   • Šárka Waisová, Ladislav Cabada

   Pages 81-102

9. In Rethinking the Belt and Road Initiative. An (Ir)replaceable Polish Factor

   • Małgorzata Borkowska-Nowak

   Pages 103-115

10. Consolidating Lao-ness: China in Laos in the Age of the BRI

    • Phill Wilcox

    Pages 117-128

11. India’s Response to the Belt and Road Initiative

    • Serge Granger

    Pages 129-141

12. Cyber-Nationalism in China: Popular Discourse on China’s Belt Road

    • Dechun Zhang, Xiaojuan Qiu

    Pages 143-156

13. The Integration of Cities as the Nodes of Chinese Cultural Belt Road Worlds: The Case of Jingdezhen City

    • Niedja de Andrade e Silva Forte dos Santos

    Pages 157-173

14. The Belt and Silk Road: Do These Ties Bind China and South Africa?

    • Siphamandla Zondi

    Pages 175-193

15. China’s Economic Diplomacy in the Context of the Far-Right Government’s Neoliberal Nationalism: The Case of Brazil’s Energy Sector

    • Ricardo Lopes Kotz, Maria José Haro Sly

    Pages 195-215

16. A Tale of Two Approaches: Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Belt and Road Initiative

    • Binoy Kampmark

    Pages 217-233

17. China’s Agro-strategic Projection in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of the Installation of the Cameroon Agricultural Technology Application Center

    • Éric Moreno Begoude Agoumé, R. Mireille Manga Edimo

    Pages 235-244

18. From Landlocked to Land-Linked: Kazakhstan as a Transport and Logistics Centre Within the Silk Road Economic Belt

    • Lyailya Nurgaliyeva

    Pages 245-258

19. Engaging Israel in the Belt and Road Initiative: China’s Techno-Nationalism in the Middle East

    • Zeying Wu, Richard Yarrow

    Pages 259-276

20. Development Cooperation Through Maritime Silk Road: China’s Big Ambitions and Mixed Responses from Southeast Asia

    • Xiaoye She

    Pages 277-298

This book is a treatise on cultural globalization and the global political economy. By introducing the transnational public domain in the study of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the book goes beyond existing theoretical frameworks involving both the ‘clash between civilizations’ and the ‘time-worn division’ of the world into North and South. It advances a new focus on the theoretical and empirical elements that canvass global cultural behaviours and reactionary attitudes to the expanding Chinese economic norms, cultures and values in different national contexts. 

Readers of political theory, global political economy, globalization, international relations, political sociology, cultural sociology, public policy and foreign policy analysis will find interest in the book. Whereas new nationalism couples with globalism, both concepts are rediscovered through various socio-economic contexts of BRI policy discourses, which produce conflicts, solidarities, new economic partnerships, and cooperation and resistance as types of contemporary nationalism. The new nationalism is approached as a dual-sided, relational, and dialectical phenomenon which readers will capture by paying particular attention to both the global and local scales of the social responses to the BRI. 

• The BRI
• China’s belt and road initiative
• Politics and economic nationalism
• Geoeconomics
• China’s economic growth
• The new silk roads
• International integration
• The belt and road initiative in Africa
• Chinese techno-nationalism

• Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France

  Julien Rajaoson

• University of Yaoundé II, Yaounde, Cameroon

  R. Mireille Manga Edimo

Julien Rajaoson is a temporary teaching and research associate at the University of Nice Côte d’Azur, France. 

R. Mireille Manga Edimo is a senior lecturer of public policy and international relations at the University of Yaoundé II, in Cameroon.

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