The Political Economy of China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”

2021 ◽  
pp. 309-345
Author(s):  
Dalton Lin
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Belt And Road

Negotiating the boundaries of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 809-813
Author(s):  
Tim Summers
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Regional Institutions ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Geographical Scope ◽  
The Belt And Road

This paper explores dynamic processes of (re)negotiation of boundaries of and in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. It identifies ambiguous temporal and spatial boundaries which create space for ongoing political and ideological contestation over the shape of the Belt and Road Initiative. The paper suggests that lack of clear geographical scope leaves open multiple futures for China’s global relations under the initiative. Chinese imaginaries hint at a world of transnational networks of political economy but one still structured by nation states and inter-governmental regional institutions at a time when the intertwining of the political and the economic is a feature of shifting configurations of global political economy.

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