Overview
- Provides insights into China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from Asia Pacific and the Middle East
- Offers critical perspectives from various directions, including historical investigations, human geography approaches and neo-Marxist inclinations
- Opens up intellectual spaces for dialogues between Asians, Arabs and Westerners on the meaning of inclusive inter-continental relationships in philosophy, geography and economics
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Imagining the Silk Roads Through Philosophy and History
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Critical Political Economy on the Road
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Critical National Perspectives
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Back Matter
Keywords
- China’s Belt and Road Initiative
- One Belt One Road
- China’s Aid policies
- Asian regionalism
- Critical geography of Asia
- Asian political thought
- Middle East and China
- China-Australia ties
- Vietnam and Asia
- Ancient Silk Road
- Early Modern East Asian Maritime Trade
- OBOR/BCIM and the Small States
- Iran-China Relations
- Japan’s Perspectives on China
About this book
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents one of the biggest geopolitical visions since the Cold War and offers the possibilities of an intercontinental vision of Aid politics, along with prospects for pan-Asianism. By and large, any geopolitical vision that purports to foster inter-regional dialogue and materialist development of peoples and economies is bound to have its flaws. The Belt and Road Initiative bears hallmarks of the socio-political tradition of Chinese authoritarian infrastructure politics while also offering a possible alternative to the so-called ‘Washington Consensus’ of free markets, deregulation and a shift towards liberal democracy.
Additionally, the Belt and Road Initiative opens up wide open intellectual spaces for dialogues between Asians, Arabs and Westerners on the meaning of inclusive inter-continental relationships in philosophy, geography and economics. The significance of this is often underplayed in Chinese official statements whereas this book introduces these possibilities within its assorted sections.
“The book is about much more than the material aspects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. In fact, various chapter authors use the Belt and Road to look at perhaps the most fundamental issue of our times: how does one build a global world order and societies that are inclusive, cohesive and capable of managing interests of all stakeholders as well as political, cultural, ethnic and religious differences in ways that all are recognized without prejudice and/or discrimination?”
—Prof. James Dorsey, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Reviews
—Prof. James Dorsey, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pham Quang Minh is Professor of History and Politics at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), Vietnam National University-Hanoi. His main teaching and research interests, among the other things, are world politics, international relations of Asia-Pacific, and Vietnam’s foreign policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Reflections on China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Editors: Alan Chong, Quang Minh Pham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2098-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2097-2Published: 25 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2098-9Published: 24 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 249
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Politics, Asian Business, History of China, Foreign Policy