Rivers of Iron (eBook)

Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia

David M. Lampton, Selina Ho, Cheng-Chwee Kuik (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
336 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97616-0 (ISBN)

Infos

What China’s infamous railway initiative can teach us about global dominance.

In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled what would come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a global development strategy involving infrastructure projects and associated financing throughout the world, including Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. While the Chinese government has framed the plan as one promoting transnational connectivity, critics and security experts see it as part of a larger strategy to achieve global dominance. Rivers of Iron examines one aspect of President Xi Jinping’s “New Era”: China’s effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). This book illuminates the political strengths and weaknesses of the plan, as well as the capacity of the impacted countries to resist, shape, and even take advantage of China’s wide-reaching actions. Using frameworks from the fields of international relations and comparative politics, the authors of Rivers of Iron seek to explain how domestic politics in these eight Asian nations shaped their varying external responses and behaviors. How does China wield power using infrastructure? Do smaller states have agency? How should we understand the role of infrastructure in broader development? Does industrial policy work? And crucially, how should competing global powers respond?
 

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Preface: Setting the Stage
Acknowledgments

1. Chinese Power Is as Chinese Power Does 
2. The Grand Vision
3. China’s Debates
4. Diverse Southeast Asian Responses
5. The Negotiating Tables: China and Southeast Asia
6. Project Implementation: “The Devil Is in the Details”
7. Geopolitics and Geoeconomics
8. Implications for China, Asia, and the World

Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Belt and Road Initiative • Cambodia • Chinese Government • comparative politics • Connection • dominance • global development strategy • infrastructure projects • inter-country railway system • International Relations • Laos • Malaysia • Myanmar • Political • Singapore • Thailand • Vietnam
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97616-9 / 0520976169
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97616-0 / 9780520976160