Dominik Mierzejewski

China's Provinces and the Belt and Road Initiative

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the Belt and Road Initiative at the provincial level in China. It analyses the evolution of the role of local governments in Chinese foreign policy since the opening of Chinaâ s economy in 1978.

Produktdetails

• China Policy Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1900
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 234mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9780367654900
• ISBN-10: 0367654903
• Artikelnr.: 65936183

Autorenporträt

Dominik Mierzejewski is an Associate Professor at the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies and chair of the Center for Asian Affairs at the University of Lodz, Poland. He specializes in the politics and foreign policy of China.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations list List of illustrations Introduction Chap
1 Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative through central-local
perspectives 1.1. The BRI: between decentralization, horizontal competition
and centralization nexus 1.2. Foreign policy, paradiplomacy and the Belt
and Road Initiative 1.3. Domestication of the Belt and Road Initiative and
provincial level governments Chap 2 The bridgeheads' actions under the BRI:
Heilongjiang and Yunnan case studies 2.1. Bridgeheads, middle ground and
cross border governance within the Belt and Road Initiative 2.1.1. Defining
middle ground, bridgeheads and peripheral diplomacy 2.1.2. Cross border
governance: a theoretical understanding 2.1.3. Border areas and cooperation
within the Chinese context 2.2. Heilongjiang: opening the North-East "old
industrial" basis? 2.2.1. Local government and NDRC adoption of the BRI
2.2.2. Heilongjiang's trade, investments, politics and biases 2.2.3. Heihe:
the dilemmas of the cross-border cooperation 2.3. Managing Southwest China
and cross-border governance in Yunnan province 2.3.1. Local government's
perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative 2.3.2. Yunnan's actions:
money, perceptions and politics 2.3.3. Managing turbulent areas:
cross-border governance in Ruili Chap 3 Sichuan and Chongqing: internal
integration, Eurasian land bridge and foreign policy 3.1. Opening the
landlocked: ways for western China development 3.1.1. The dilemmas of
development in landlocked areas 3.1.2. Historical continuations and Open Up
the West policy 3.1.3. Bringing the east and the west together: the YREB
and the BRI 3.2. The most active BRI "player": Sichuan province 3.2.1.
Sichuan discussing and planning its role in the Belt and Road Initiative
3.2.2. The international markets and politics in the Sichuanese
"paradiplomacy" 3.2.3. Practicing local railway diplomacy: the district of
Qingbaijiang 3.3. Chongqing's close relations with the centre and its
international activities 3.3.1. The Chongqing municipal's perspective
regarding the Belt and Road Initiative 3.3.2. Export markets, new
technologies, capital rising and party-to-party relations 3.3.3. Developing
the west through rail freight and Lianjiang New District Chap 4 Guangdong
and Hainan: urbanization, maritime economies and strategic encounters under
the Maritime Silk Road 4.1. The further opening up of opened areas:
southern China and the Maritime Silk Road 4.1.1. Southern China and the
21st Century Maritime Silk Road 4.1.2. Urbanization and integration
projects in the Greater Bay Area 4.1.3. The maritime economy and provinces'
sea border management 4.2. The Southern Gateway: the self-made Cantonese
Belt and Road Initiative 4.2.1. Does the BRI matter? Guangdong's responses
to official policy 4.2.2. International markets, provincial lobbying and
high-tech gateway 4.2.3. City multilateralism and market securitization:
Guangzhou goes global 4.3 Hainan: an auxiliary player in China's foreign
policy? 4.3.1. Hainan serves China's foreign policy: understanding the BRI
in Haikou 4.3.2. Economic integration and limited international political
outreach 4.3.3. Extension of Beijing's bureaucratic cycles: Hainan and the
South China Sea policy Conclusions Index