The Impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia

Evaluating Risks and Benefits
2025
ISBN: 978-981-97-9510-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 545 g

Drawing insights from intensive empirical investigation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in various Southeast Asian countries, this book assesses and analyzes the continuing impact of China’s BRI on Thailand and ASEAN at a critical period of Southeast Asian history. Over the past decade, the BRI, a large flagship foreign policy effort of President Xi Jinping, has had a significant economic, political, and environmental impact across the world. Since its inception, the BRI has remained shrouded in confusion and controversy. The Covid-19 pandemic also presented additional challenges for our understanding of the BRI that warrant further exploration. This volume places special focus on special economic zones (SEZs) and high-speed train projects, and comparatively examines and critically analyzes the risks and benefits stemming from these megaprojects. Breaking away from existing academic studies on the BRI, which have been largely based on macro analysis with a top-down approach and theoretical deliberation, this book focuses on local realities with a qualitative approach to identify the potential impact of the BRI on the development of ASEAN countries. By way of a bottom-up, empirically-rich, first-hand ethnographic account of the risks and benefits of the BRI projects at the local, national, and regional levels in ASEAN, this book makes a substantial contribution to multiple disciplinary arenas, from anthropology, sociology, and history, to political science and international relations, with particular relevance to those researching China and its relationships with Southeast Asia.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheng Lee, Kian

Santasombat, Yos

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

China’s Engagement in the Multilateral Platforms: The GDI, BRI, and LMC and the Reshaping of the Global Governance.- The Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia and the Belt and Road Initiative.- Taking Stock of Ten Years of BRI Projects in Malaysia.- The Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone: the Chinese State-Owned Enterprise’s Business Practices and the Local Responses.- NESTING FOR EAGLES TO LAY EGGS: How did public critiques transformed SEZ policy in Vietnam.- Chinese Nomadic Recycling Industry: A Socio-ecological Fix in the BRI-EEC Alignment.- Impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative in Lao PDR on the Transborder Cattle Trade in Southeast Asia.- Seeing the Silent Voices: Understanding Local Responses to China's Railway Construction in Laos and Thailand.- Chinese Agricultural investment and Land Governance in Southeast Asia.

Über Autor(innen)

Yos Santasombat is Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Director, China-Southeast Asian Studies Center, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, and Senior Research Scholar, Thailand Research Fund. He is the author of numerous books, including Lak Chang: A Reconstruction of Tai Identity in Daikong (Canberra: Pandanus Books, ANU, 2001); Biodiversity, Local Knowledge and Sustainable Development (Chiang Mai: RCSD, 2003, 2014); Flexible Peasants: Reconceptualizing the Third World’s Rural Types (Chiang Mai: RCSD,2008); The River of Life: Changing Ecosystems of the Mekong Region (Chiang Mai: Mekong Press, 2011); as well as the edited volumes Impact of China’s Rise in the Mekong Region (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia: Cultures and Practices (Palgrave Macmillan 2017), The Sociology of Chinese Capitalism: Challenges and Prospects (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), and Transnational Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Case Studies from Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore (Springer 2022).