KRPEC, Oldřich and Carol WISE. Grand Development Strategy or Simply Grandiose? China's Diffusion of Its Belt & Road Initiative into Central Europe. New Political Economy. Abingdon: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2022, vol. 27, No 6, p. 972-988. ISSN 1356-3467. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2021.1961218.
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Original name Grand Development Strategy or Simply Grandiose? China's Diffusion of Its Belt & Road Initiative into Central Europe
Authors KRPEC, Oldřich (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Carol WISE (840 United States of America).
Edition New Political Economy, Abingdon, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2022, 1356-3467.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50601 Political science
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 4.200
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14230/22:00124981
Organization unit Faculty of Social Studies
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2021.1961218
UT WoS 000692578500001
Keywords in English China; Belt and Road Initiative; Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; European Union
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Abstract
Since the launching of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, Chinese leaders have sought to diffuse this ambitious overseas infrastructure drive into the Central and Eastern European bloc. From the literature on policy diffusion, we refer here to a process whereby a dominant actor (China) has vigorously promoted a particular strand of its own domestic development policy in other emerging economies. Our focus is on the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, all EU members since 2004. We draw on Etel Solingen's (2012. Of dominoes and firewalls: the domestic, regional, and global politics of international diffusion. International Studies Quarterly, 56 (4), 631–644) seminal framework on policy diffusion, which considers the stimulus, the medium, political agents, and outcomes. It is the dearth of BRI loans and China-backed infrastructure projects in this sub-region that we seek to explain. Our main finding is that China has been its own biggest firewall in the diffusion of BRI into Central Europe. China needs to formulate policies that surpass the pursuit of its own economic interests and devise approaches that resonate with the more developed status of these three Central European countries.
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