Rethinking the Silk Road

Zusatztext

Focused on the "Belt and Road Initiative", this book discusses Chinas opportunities to translate economic leverage into political outcomes. The central question is how Chinas expanding economic influence will transform the Eurasian political landscape. Proposed in late 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the Belt and Road is the most ambitious foreign policy approach adopted thus far and represents the culmination of Chinas search for a grand strategic narrative. Comparative methods and diverse conceptual frameworks are applied to contextualize and explore the political, economic, and cultural ramifications of the Belt and Road in order to shed light on its transformative significance, risks and opportunities.

Autorenportrait

Maximilian Mayer is a research professor at the German Studies Center of Tongji University,China. He is co-editor of the two-volume The Global Politics of Science and Technology and Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics. His research interests include the global politics of technoscience and innovation, Chinas foreign and energy policy, global climate politics, and International Relations theories.

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