The Geopolitics of China's Belt and Road Initiative

This book argues that China's Belt and Road Initiative should be seen more as a geopolitical project and less as a global economic project, with China aiming to bring about a new Chinese-led international order.

Autorentext

Theodor Tudoroiu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

Klappentext

This book argues that China's Belt and Road Initiative should be seen more as a geopolitical project and less as a global economic project, with China aiming to bring about a new Chinese-led international order.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 International Order, Grand Strategy, and China

Chapter 3 Geopolitics

Chapter 4 Normative Power, Relationality, Chinese Socialization, and an Alternative Geopolitical Approach

Chapter 5 The Belt and Road Initiative

Chapter 6 Sri Lanka and the Geopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative

Chapter 7 The BRI and the Sino-American Confrontation

Index