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The Belt and Road Initiative

An Old Archetype of a New Development Model

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Editors:
  1. Francisco José B. S. Leandro

    1. City University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

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  2. Paulo Afonso B. Duarte

    1. Research Centre in Political Science, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  • Offers a clear and combined multi-perspective approach on China's BRI

  • Combines geopolitics and geostrategy to better understand dynamics of the BRI

  • Assesses regional and global impacts of BRI, in terms of interdependence between continents and regions

  • Analyses the contribution of the BRI to the shaping of a new era marked by a benign revisionism, assertiveness and pragmatism

  • Presents contributions of passionate scholars combining practice and a sustained theoretical framework

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xliv
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  2. The Belt and Road Initiative Concept

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The New Silk Roads: Defining China’s Grand Strategy

      • Tanguy Struye de Swielande, Dorothée Vandamme
      Pages 3-22

    3. The Words of the Belt and Road Initiative: A Chinese Discourse for the World?

      • Cátia Miriam Costa
      Pages 23-44

    4. Global Strike vs. Globalization: The US-China Rivalry and the BRI

      • Amit Gupta
      Pages 45-60

    5. Belt, Road and Ball: Football as a Chinese Soft Power and Public Diplomacy Tool

      • Emanuel Leite Junior, Carlos Rodrigues
      Pages 61-83

    6. Understanding China’s “One Belt and One Road” Initiative: An “International Public Goods” Approach

      • Li Xing, Zheng Xiaowen
      Pages 85-109

    7. The Financing of the Belt and Road Initiative: Blessings and Curses

      • Enrique Martínez-Galán
      Pages 111-147

    8. BRI—Sustainable, Inclusive Growth, and Financial Sources

      • Fernanda Ilhéu
      Pages 149-172

    9. Environmental Considerations of the Belt and Road Initiative

      • Richard Hardiman
      Pages 173-201

    10. The Chinese Partnerships and “the Belt and Road” Initiative: A Synergetic Affiliation

      • Yichao Li, Mário Barbosa Vicente
      Pages 203-235

  3. The Belt and Road Initiative and the European Union

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. The Belt and Road Initiative: A New Platform in EU-China Cooperation?

      • Carmen Amado Mendes, Lorenzo Gagliano
      Pages 239-253

    3. Maritime Cooperation in the European Union-China Relations and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: What is at Stake?

      • Lívia Brasil Carmo Grault, Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira
      Pages 255-281

    4. EU Legal Obstacles to the Belt and Road Initiative: Towards a China-EU Framework on the Belt and Road Initiative

      • Sten Idris Verhoeven
      Pages 283-316

  4. The Belt and Road Initiative and Latin America, North Atlantic, Central Europe and Central Asia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317
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    2. Latin America and the Caribbean Bring the Western Hemisphere into the Belt and Road

      • Gretchen Small
      Pages 319-341

    3. China and the Great Urban Projects in Cabo Verde

      • Ivete Silves Ferreira, João Paulo Madeira
      Pages 343-362

    4. The Ultimate European Border: The Belt and Road Initiative Discovers Portugal

      • Francisco José B. S. Leandro, Paulo Afonso B. Duarte
      Pages 363-388

    5. China and the Portuguese Atlantic: The BRI’S Last Puzzle Piece

      • Jorge Tavares da Silva, Rui Pereira
      Pages 389-409
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About this book

This book is an analysis of the developments associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) five years after Xi Jinping announced both the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the 21st Maritime Silk Road (21MSR). Together, these two dimensions constitute the B&RI, providing the so-called Chinese ‘project of the century’ with regional, inter-regional and global reach. This book aims at assessing the impact of the B&RI in all these dimensions and levels of influence. This is a current and promising theme, not only in the short and medium terms, but also within a broader timescale, reflecting Chinese strategic thinking itself, since Chinese philosophy and culture are oriented towards long-term and inter-generational perspectives. Likewise, both the title of this publication and the way it has been organized result from the empirical perception that China asserts a conservative attitude towards foreign affairs, redesigned in multiple dimensions, to create a perception of domestic unity and global prestige. In this vein of thought, the B&RI is already influencing and will continue to influence, directly or indirectly, the current economic and political order.

Editors and Affiliations

  • City University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

    Francisco José B. S. Leandro

  • Research Centre in Political Science, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Afonso B. Duarte

About the editors

Francisco B. S. José Leandro received a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the Catholic University of Portugal in 2010. He is currently an associate professor and Assistant Dean of the Institute for Research on Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the City University of Macau, China.


Paulo Afronso B. Duarte received a Ph.D. in political science from the Catholic University of Louvain. He is currently an assistant professor at Universidade Lusófona do Porto and guest professor at the University of Minho. He is a post-doctoral researcher at Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política, University of Minho, Portugal.

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