Detailed Information on Publication Record
2022
Grand Development Strategy or Simply Grandiose? China's Diffusion of Its Belt & Road Initiative into Central Europe
KRPEC, Oldřich and Carol WISEBasic information
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
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
50601 Political science
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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Impact factor
Impact factor: 4.200
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/22:00124981
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
UT WoS
000692578500001
Keywords in English
China; Belt and Road Initiative; Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; European Union
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Změněno: 14/2/2023 14:58, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová
Abstract
V originále
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.