The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics

This handbook offers readers various perspectives on globalization and multilateralism with Chinese characteristics. Its originality is derived from the hybrid approaches the handbook takes, where chapters provide complementary, intertwined, and multi-level analysis on the topic. Based on contributions of scholars and practitioners from a number of countries, the handbook helps readers to comprehend ongoing debates on the Belt and Road Initiative and global governance, within a shifting balance of world power, characterized by competing views between Western and Chinese norms, standards, values, and narratives.

Split into three Parts, and consisting of 46 chapters, the handbook views globalization as comprehensive concept that benefits from the contributions of various disciplines such as geography, geo-economics, political science and international relations. In producing one of the most ambitious and updated outputs on the topic, the handbook as a whole seeks to discusswhat globalization with Chinese characteristics looks like, and the role of the Belt and Road Initiative in this process.

Offers insights into precisely how the B&RI boosts China's international momentum and worldwide globalization Explores the significance of various crossing-cutting issues, such as digital corridors, AI and the health silk road Highlights how the B&RI creates less Western-centric globalization, actively reflecting an Asia-Pacific outlook

Auteur

Paulo Afronso B. Duarte received a Ph.D. in political science from the Catholic University of Louvain. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona (Porto) and Guest Professor at the University of Minho. He is an expert in China's Belt and Road Initiative and regular political commentator in the media.

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.
Enrique Martínez Galán received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Lisbon in 2018. Currently, he is Associate Professor and Program Director at the Stephen Zuellig School of Development Management - Asian Institute of Management, Philippines, and Researcher at Center for African and Development Studies of ISEG-Lisbon School of Economics and Management. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank".

Contenu
Introduction.- Chapter 1 - The BRI in Historical Perspective: PRC Economic Statecraft Since 1949.- Chapter 2 - China, the BRI, and the New Vocabulary of Global Governance.- Chapter 3 - The Globalizing Discourse of the Belt and Road Initiative.- Chapter 4 - The BRI in Xi's China Grand Strategy: an instrument to restore Chinese centrality in a New Era.- Chapter 5 - People-to-People Exchanges: A Cluster of Narratives to Advance Purposeful Constructivism.- Chapter 6 - The Belt and Road Initiative in Global Governance: Impact on the International World Order.- Chapter 7 - Glocalization of Belt and Road Initiatives: The Importance of Local Agency.- Chapter 8 - The Chinese Agenda on the World Economic Forum. Assessing Political Evidence Between Rhetoric and Practice.- Chapter 9 - COVID-19 Pandemic, China and Global Power Shifts: Understanding the Interplay and Implications.- Chapter 10 - Enacting inclusive globalization in a VUCA context whilst emerging from Covid-19.- Chapter 11- China's Ambition in Promoting Green Finance for Belt and Road Initiative.- Chapter 12 - Liability of emergingness of emerging market banks internationalizing to advanced economies.- Chapter 13 - Chinese health strategy: a tool towards global governance.- Chapter 14 - Digital China: Governance, Power Politics and the Social Game.- Chapter 15 - The New Face of Multilateralism: The Case of Chinese Forums.- Chapter 16 - Secular Stagnation and World Leadership: China´s rising path.- Chapter 17 - Visuality and Infrastructure: the case of the Belt and Road Initiative.- Chapter 18 - The Belt and Road Initiative: can it signalize a new pendulum movement?.- Chapter 19 The EU-China Geo-Economic Equilibrium in a World of Uncertainty.- Chapter 20 - A shifting current: Europe's changing approaches vis-à-vis China, the Belt and Road Initiative and the COVID-19 pandemic.- Chapter 21 - China in Central and Eastern Europe: New opportunities for small states.- Chapter 22 China and the European Union Inside the economic dynamics of a challenging relationship.- Chapter 23 A review of China's contribution to the sustainable development of the European tourism industry: A case study of economic effects and sustainability issues in Albania.- Chapter 24 A greater Eurasian Partnership? Xi and Putin's Road to integrate and lead.- Chapter 25 - Health, Road, and Russia: Perspectives on Russian Involvement with China' s Health Silk Road.- Chapter 26 India's Challenge to the BRI: Shaping the Global Normative Consensus.- Chapter 27 China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): India's Conundrum and Policy Options.- Chapter 28 - China in Latin America: to BRI or not to BRI.- Chapter 29 - Why America Opposes the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).- Chapter 30 - The Belt and Road Initiative's Security Challenges: The Chinese Globalization Project and Sino-American Rivalry.- Chapter 31 - Sino-Iranian cooperation in Artificial Intelligence: a potential countering against the US hegemony.- Chapter 32 - China and the wave of Globalization focusing on the Middle East.- Chapter 33 - China-Iran's 25-Years deal: The Implication for the Belt and Road Initiative and Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).- Chapter 34 - China's New Maritime Silk Road Cooperation: Why Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines are Clings in Disagreement?.- Chapter 35 - The Belt and Road Initiative and the Uneven Triangle of Latvia, Belarus, and China.- Chapter 36 - The Impact of Belt and Road Initiative on Asian Economies along the Route.- Chapter 37 - The Belt and Road in the Kyrgyz Republic: Mapping economic risks and risk perceptions.- Chapter 38 - Belt and Road Initiative's economic impact on Central Asia. The cases of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.- Chapter 39 How Does BRI Affect the Degree of Globalisation in Southeast Asia?.- Chapter 40 Vietnam's Attitude Toward China's Belt and Road Initiative Amid Globalization.- Chapter 41 The South Atlantic in China's Global Policy: Why It Matters?.- Chapter 42 Belt and Road Initiative: Impact and Implications for Africa-China Relations.- Chapter 43 The unequal modalities of China's intervention in Africa.- Chapter 444 Africa's thirst for infrastructure: Contemporary phenomenon that makes China the trading partner.- Chapter 45 Why is China Going Polar? Understanding Engagement and Implications for the Arctic and Antarctica.