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Record Nr.

UNINA9910874654803321

Autore

Wu Lunting

Titolo

Belt and Road Initiative in South America : Explaining the Varying Responses / / by Lunting Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9789819715459

9789819715442

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 pages)

Disciplina

337.5108

Soggetti

Latin America - Economic conditions

International economic relations

International economic integration

Globalization

Economic development

Latin American/Caribbean Economics

International Political Economy’

Economic Aspects of Globalization

Economic Development, Innovation and Growth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Contextualising the Belt and Road Initiative in South America -- Chapter 2: Foreign Policy Analysis: South American Countries’ Foreign Policy towards the BRI -- Chapter 3: Chile and the Belt and Road Initiative -- Chapter 4: Colombia and the Belt and Road Initiative -- Chapter 5: Brazil and the Belt and Road Initiative -- Chapter 6: Business Preferences, State Structure, and Foreign Policy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is concerned with the varying responses of South American countries to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Since Beijing launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, 3/4 of countries in the world have engaged with China's arrangement of promoting global physical and digital connectivity. This still leaves a quarter of them that have refused China’s offer so far or withdrawn. How do we account for why countries chose to join the BRI while others do not? Research on South American



countries’ responses to the BRI is scant, but the topic is pertinent. While the great-power competition and systemic rivalry have spoiled the appetite of European countries to intensify their ties with China, many developing countries seem to be rather interested. This book will interest scholars of international political economy, geopolitics, foreign policy and international development. Lunting Wu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin, an associate in the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script" and the Center for European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin, and a fellow at FGV Europe and the Instituto do Oriente of the University of Lisbon. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Freie Universität Berlin.