The Political Economy of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative in Cambodia

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-190
Author(s):  
Pheakdey Heng ◽  
Vannarith Chheang
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
The Political ◽  
Maritime Silk Road

Ethical political economy: Lessons from the Malay world’s Hikayat Abdullah (1849)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-231
Author(s):  
Alan Chong
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Good Government ◽  
The Mind

According to Munshi Abdullah, the author of the Hikayat Abdullah (Annals of Abdullah), ‘knowledge and skill are the ladder to riches, and riches lead to greatness. Of a truth, all things created by Allah in this world have their value which can be reckoned in terms of money; learning alone commands a price which no man can determine’ (Abdullah, 1970: 40). This empowerment of ethical behaviour through the disciplining of the mind in the practice of principles frames the Hikayat’s approach to the practice of mercantilism and good government in the service of commerce. This article interprets the dimensions of this 19th-century Asian vision and uncovers three themes related to the maritime Silk Road: impartial administration of law and order, beneficent autocracy and the proper prioritization of wealth and good manners.

China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative

Asian Survey ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-peng Chung ◽  
Thomas J. Voon
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
The Political ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

This article focuses on China’s Maritime Silk Road initiative, paying particular attention to Southeast Asia, the initiative’s key focus. It examines the political and economic costs and benefits of participation in the initiative for Southeast Asian countries, and identifies the rationales that may enhance or diminish the initiative’s success.

scholarly journals The Politics of Chinese Investment in Africa under Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Andika Raka Dianjaya
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Chinese Investment ◽  
Potential Partner ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
The World ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Risk Investment ◽  
Political Economy Approach

BRI project that will be held by China to connect countries in Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa through Maritime Silk Road and Land Silk Road. This project will accelerate economy between countries who joined with this project. Africa as the potential partner have abundant resources energy that China require to maintain their position as the largest industrial producer in the world. China offering investment total of $ 60 billion to Africa and pledge to assist them to build infrastructure, technology, agriculture and any project that Africa need to develop their countries so they can compete in this globalization revolution industrial era. On this paper, we will analyse China position with their BRI project in Africa using Political Economy Approach by Weingast & Wittman and why China willingly to give investment total of $ 60 billion to Africa which is some Africa countries maybe can’t pay back their loans. Is this will become risk investment for China itself in the future?

The Silk Road and the Iranian political economy in late antiquity: Iran, the Silk Road, and the problem of aristocratic empire

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-250
Author(s):  
Richard E. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
South Central ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
The Silk Road

AbstractThe Iranian Empire emerged in the third century in the interstices of the Silk Road that increasingly linked the markets of the Mediterranean and the Near East with South, Central, and East Asia. The ensuing four centuries of Iranian rule corresponded with the heyday of trans-Eurasian trade, as the demand of moneyed imperial elites across the continent for one another's high-value commodities stimulated the development of long-distance networks. Despite its position at the nexus of trans-continental and trans-oceanic commerce, accounts of Iran in late antiquity relegate trade to a marginal role in its political economy. The present article seeks to foreground the contribution of trans-continental mercantile networks to the formation of Iran and to argue that its development depended as much on the political economies of its western and eastern neighbours as on internal Near Eastern factors.

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