The Greening of the Belt and Road Initiative and China’s New International Order
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This book uses an International Relations Constructivist approach to analyze the greening of the Belt and Road Initiative in the wider context of Beijing’s counterhegemonic efforts. The book’s first part shows that, since 2013, China has been constructing a new international order. The numerous large prestige infrastructure projects of the BRI have served as material incentives allowing for the Chinese socialization of Global South political elites. In recent years, however, the Western infrastructure counteroffensive and severe financial difficulties have seriously hampered this process. In response, President Xi decided to make the BRI smaller, “cleaner,” and greener. Given the first two changes’ lack of results, greening remains the only way to restore the Initiative’s effectiveness. This book’s second part shows that despite a “mountain” of pro-environment policy documents, the BRI greening is, in large measure, little more than greenwashing. However, it has been successful in achieving its real objective. The Green BRI helps create long-lasting center-periphery relationships of dependence and, more importantly, tries to take control of the global environmental governance system or, if this fails, to create a new one. This governance system becomes a component of the Chinese-led international order, thus strengthening and bringing it closer to maturity.
This book uses an International Relations Constructivist approach to analyze the greening of the Belt and Road Initiative in the wider context of Beijing’s counterhegemonic efforts. The book’s first part shows that, since 2013, China has been constructing a new international order. The numerous large prestige infrastructure projects of the BRI have served as material incentives allowing for the Chinese socialization of Global South political elites. In recent years, however, the Western infrastructure counteroffensive and severe financial difficulties have seriously hampered this process. In response, President Xi decided to make the BRI smaller, “cleaner,” and greener. Given the first two changes’ lack of results, greening remains the only way to restore the Initiative’s effectiveness. This book’s second part shows that despite a “mountain” of pro-environment policy documents, the BRI greening is, in large measure, little more than greenwashing. However, it has been successful in achieving its real objective. The Green BRI helps create long-lasting center-periphery relationships of dependence and, more importantly, tries to take control of the global environmental governance system or, if this fails, to create a new one. This governance system becomes a component of the Chinese-led international order, thus strengthening and bringing it closer to maturity.
Contains the first in-depth analysis of the link between China’s green policies and counterhegemonic ambitions Provides an original view of the relationship between the ecological turn of the BRI and Beijing’s geopolitical plans Written by leading experts in the field
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Theodor Tudoroiu
Themen in »The Greening of the Belt and Road Initiative and China’s New International Order«
The Green Belt and Road Initiative The Green Silk Road Ecological Civilization China’s International Order Chinese Foreign Policy Chinese Counterhegemonic Plans China-US Rivalry International Socialization Relationality-based Normative Power Ecological Turn Environmental Governance Environmentalism and Development Kuznets Curve Clean Industries Xi Jinping Thought