The Belt and Road Initiative and Comprehensive Regionalism in Central Asia

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dc.contributor.authorQoraboyev I.
dc.contributor.authorMoldashev K.
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-25T09:23:50Z
dc.date.available2025-08-25T09:23:50Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.identifier.citationQoraboyev I , Moldashev K / The Belt and Road Initiative and Comprehensive Regionalism in Central Asia / Springer Nature /2018
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.sdu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1957
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.subjectRoad initiative
dc.subjectBR
dc.subjectregions
dc.titleThe Belt and Road Initiative and Comprehensive Regionalism in Central Asia
dc.typeArticle

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