China's Engagements with Central and Eastern Europe: Costs and Benefits in the Era of the Belt and Road Initiative

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781789908718.00037" target="_blank" >10.4337/9781789908718.00037</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

China's Engagements with Central and Eastern Europe: Costs and Benefits in the Era of the Belt and Road Initiative

Original language description

This chapter examines China's interactions with the countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with a specific reference to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and more closely in relation to the evolving 17+1 platform. Apart from the assessment of the internal dynamics of this multilateral cooperation, the author outlines the costs and benefits of specific bilateral relations. The study highlights varied outcomes and posits that while some activities related to the 17+1 provide new opportunities for socialising and negotiations among the participating states, and aid to the overall materialising of the vision behind the BRI, the individual countries have already been pressured to perform more critical assessments of their increased activity vis-à-vis China by think tanks and governmental institutions. The author focuses on the political, economic and societal relations and draws her conclusions through a comparative assessment of trends in Central Europe, the Baltics ad the Balkans since there are some differences in approaches and outcomes in these respective regions in Europe. The evolving EU policy towards China, driven by the Western European countries, will further put pressure on the EU member states from CEE to consider a stronger alignment with the EU goals and standards when joining new projects under the BRI/the 17+1 collaboration in the future.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Research Handbook on the Belt and Road Initiative

ISBN

978-1-78990-870-1

Number of pages of the result

9

Pages from-to

323-331

Number of pages of the book

488

Publisher name

Edward Elgar Publishing

Place of publication

Cheltenham

UT code for WoS chapter

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