Browsing by Author "Qoraboyev I."

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    Strategic responses of regional economic organizations to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative: the cases of ASEAN, EAEU, and EU
    (Asia Pacific Business Review, 2022) De Lombaerde Ph.; Moldashev K.; Qoraboyev I.; Qoraboyev I.
    The aim of this paper is to undertake a systematic comparative analysis of how regional economic organizations (REOs) in the wider Eurasian region have strategically responded to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. The theoretical framework is based on the external actorness literature, comparative regionalism, and foreign policy analysis. The analysis links the distinctive features of the REOs to the shape and impact of their strategic responses to the Belt and Road Initiative. At the same time, it shows the extent to which REOs play a functional role vis-à-vis their member states and large firms in a macro-regional strategic context.
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    The Belt and Road Initiative and Comprehensive Regionalism in Central Asia
    (Springer Nature, 2018) Qoraboyev I.; Moldashev K.
    The Belt and Road (BR) initiative, launched in 2013, aims at “establishing a community of common interest, common responsibility and common destiny with 4,4 billion people in 65 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa along the route”.1 Official and academic texts mostly highlight regional characteristics of BR, while theoretical and conceptual studies are very rare. Only few studies have an explicit focus on its implications for comparative regionalism. Several reasons may account for this situation. As recently as in 2015, Francois Godement was pointing to scarcity of information concerning BR initiative. 2 Lack of clear information and understanding about BR both within and outside China has led, according to Jia Qingguo, to multiplication of different interpretations about the nature of BR. 3 This makes BR appear as an ambiguous project, which in turn prevents further efforts of clear conceptualization.4 Moreover, it is a common practice that any Chinese project is immediately scrutinized for its geopolitical consequences and security implications for its immediate neighborhood as well as the entire international system. This practice has already resulted in a vast literature based on zero-sum game assumptions of Chinese rise in international politics. The BR is seen as another project initiated by China in its quest for global leadership and there is a risk that the lack of conceptual frameworks may perpetuate geopolitical analyses of the BR.