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The BRI in a Multipolar World: A Normative Tool for Cooperation or Nationalism?

In: New Nationalisms and China's Belt and Road Initiative

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  • Megumi Nishimura

    (Ritsumeikan University)

Abstract

This chapter examines the role of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the twenty-first-century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) for a normative construct as a benign leader in a multipolar world. China has attempted to strengthen its multilateral diplomacy through the construction of the BRI. Western powers have criticized that China has notoriously stood on bilateralism or unilaterally bullied the weaker neighbours through military or economic sanctions. Yet, China has continuously swung its foreign policy approaches to managing the capitalist and socialist states in correspondence with its shifting ideological and material positions. More than ever before, China as a world superpower has turned to multilateralism in its foreign policy and has come much closer to the multilateral mentality in viewing the world’s political and economic affairs. Through the BRI project, China attempts to transfer a norm that China has been a legitimate and benign regional leader in constructing a new world order. This chapter assesses the extent to which the BRI project has successfully achieved this attempt. If not, the chapter also analyses what factors have caused these incomplete results?

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  • Megumi Nishimura, 2022. "The BRI in a Multipolar World: A Normative Tool for Cooperation or Nationalism?," Springer Books, in: Julien Rajaoson & R. Mireille Manga Edimo (ed.), New Nationalisms and China's Belt and Road Initiative, chapter 0, pages 13-24, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-08526-0_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08526-0_2
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