China’s Belt Road Initiative and the New Eurasian Order
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At this seminar, Professor William Callahan will present some interesting findings from his recent book "China Dreams: 20 Views of the Future". Since Xi Jinping became leader in 2012, he has redirected Chinese foreign policy. While it is popular to look to theories of the international system – offensive realism and liberal institutionalism – to explore this issue, Callahan follows constructivism to take seriously the role of ideas and domestic politics in foreign policy-making. Through an analysis of official and unofficial sources, it traces linkages between ideas, institutions and behavior in Chinese foreign policy. In particular, it argues that Beijing is combining new ideas (China Dream, Asia Dream, World Dream), new policies (comprehensive diplomacy and security), new institutions (AIIB), and new projects (BRI) to build what Xi calls the “community of shared destiny.” The goal is to weave neighboring countries into a Sino-centric network of economic, political, cultural and security relations. Beijing’s grand strategy thus is to re-constitute the Eurasian regional order – and eventually global order – with new governance ideas, norms, and rules. Theoretically, the essay shows how “connectivity” is more than an issue of the “hardware” of physical infrastructure; it is also a “software” issue of the connectivity of ideas, institutions and behavior in diplomacy itself.
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OBOR is similar to the Imperial Japan's propaganda concept "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"?. Do you know what "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" is beyond just hearsay or someone's whisper?
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and Russia's North Road - the Russian northern trade route? - They are comparable?
In Russia, on the northern trade route said first in 1930, then in 1950--1960's - then appeared nuclear-powered icebreakers, and then began to speak of the Trans-Siberian Railway - the railway, which will connect the West with the East - the second half of 1970, then again We began to talk about the northern sea Route in 1980. But nothing has changed - but spent a lot of money on the development of (the money utilized by whom?). Again hyperproject - get or not?
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