دانلود کتاب The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Asia to Europe

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. The role of the Belt and Road Initiative in China’s international relations
1.1 The complex and multifaceted rise of China
1.2 The Belt and Road Initiative: China’s ‘new silk roads’
1.3 Reactions to the BRI as frames of interpretation
1.4 Developing a theoretical-methodological approach to the Belt
and Road
1.5 Organisation and contribution of the book
References
2. Theorising the Belt and Road Initiative
2.1 Introduction: how to theorise the BRI’s complexity?
2.2 China’s flexible, syncretic approach to policymaking in
a complex world: implications for the BRI
2.3 Theory 1: Tang Shiping’s social evolution paradigm (SEP)
2.4 Theory 2: neo-Gramscian hegemony
2.5 Theory 3: offensive mercantilism
2.6 Complex eclecticism: a theoretical-methodological framework
for analysing the BRI below the macro-level
2.7 Conclusion
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3. Complex eclecticism
3.1 Introduction: why complex eclecticism?
3.2 Sil and Katzenstein’s analytic eclecticism: strengths and
weaknesses
3.3 International relations (IR) theoretical schools: mainstream,
non-mainstream and non-Western
3.4 Moving from inter-paradigm debates to conceptual toolkits
3.5 Complexity theory/complexity thinking (CT)
3.6 Incompleteness and difficulty: an impasse or a way forward for
IR theory?
3.7 The problem of complex systems in IR
3.8 An outline of CT’s conceptual toolkit
3.8.1 Nonlinearity/sensitivity to initial parameters
3.8.2 Feedback loops
3.8.3 Emergence/self-organisation
3.8.4 Tipping points/edge of chaos
3.8.5 Black swans
3.8.6 Path dependence
3.9 Conclusion: combining complexity and eclecticism to analyse
the BRI
References
4. Applying complex eclecticism to the Belt and Road Initiative
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Interdependence, institutions and non-state actors
4.3 Power, states and anarchy
4.4 Norms, ideas and intersubjectivity
4.5 Non-mainstream concepts: harmony of interests/world society/
relationalism/patriarchal authoritarianism/economic inequality/
natural environment
4.6 Complexity theory/complexity thinking (CT)
4.7 Conclusion
References
5. The characteristics of the Belt and Road Initiative
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The emerging characteristics of the Belt and Road Initiative
5.2.1 The Belt and Road is supposed to encompass over 60 countries in Asia
and Europe
5.2.2 The Belt and Road is intended to improve connectivity across Eurasia,
primarily by focusing on improving transport and energy infrastructure, with
the other stated goals probably being subsidiary
5.2.3 The Belt and Road contains two main routes, the Silk Road Economic
Belt (SREB) and the Maritime Silk Road (MSR)
5.2.4 The Belt and Road contains sub-projects
5.2.5 The Belt and Road is a continuation of previous official Chinese
government policies
5.2.6 The BRI is Xi Jinping’s flagship foreign policy initiative, and thus
closely associated with his leadership
5.2.7 The BRI involves the use of institutions such as the Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Silk Road Fund and regional
forums
5.2.8 The Belt and Road is intended to have appeal for foreign audiences as
well as the domestic Chinese one, thus boosting China’s soft power abroad
and legitimacy at home
5.2.9 The Belt and Road is ambitious, large-scale, loose, and vague
5.2.10 The BRI is intended to achieve win-win cooperation among
participating nations
5.3 Conclusion: unpacking the implications
References
6. The Belt and Road Initiative’s regional impacts
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Central Asia
6.2.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkits to Central Asia
6.3 Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
6.3.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkits to CEE
6.4 Southeast Asia
6.4.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkits to Southeast Asia
6.5 South Asia
6.5.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkits to South Asia
6.6 The Middle East
6.6.1 Applying the complex eclecticism toolkits to the Middle East
6.7 Conclusions
References
7. Assessing the impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Summary of the findings in Chapters 4–6
7.3 Assessing complex eclecticism
7.4 Assessing the macro-level theories
7.5 The Belt and Road’s global implications
7.6 Conclusion: the Belt and Road Initiative into the future
References
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