Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order - Hardcover

Maçães, Bruno

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1787380025 ISBN 13: 9781787380028

Publisher: Hurst, 2019

Synopsis

China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture. Most importantly, it symbolizes a new phase in China's ambitions as a superpower: to remake the world economy and crown Beijing as the new center of capitalism and globalization.
Bruno Maes traces this extraordinary initiative's history, highlighting its achievements to date, and its staggering complexity. He asks whether Belt and Road is about more than power projection and profit. Might it herald a new set of universal political values, to rival those of the West? Is it, in fact, the story of the century?

About this title

About the Author

Bruno Maes is a non-resident senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and senior advisor at Flint Global. Formerly Portugal's Europe minister (2013-15), he has been a regular commentator for CNN, the BBC and Al Jazeera, and has written for the Financial Times, The Guardian and Foreign Affairs. His last book was The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order.

Review

"China's emerging mastery of the Eurasian trade zone is described in visionary, granular detail."-- The Wall Street Journal

"Stimulating."--The Economist

"Macaes . . . is one of our chaotic times' most fertile brains . . . across Asia things are on the move, in large part because of Chinese ambition, and he is right to be excited about it."--The Times

"Bruno Macaes describes a changing world order with great verve and clarity. Belt and Road is a vital compass for this change, describing how the formation of 'Eurasia' and the creation of world changing trading routes reset the allocation of economic and political influence."-- Paschal Donohoe TD, Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, Ireland

"This is a remarkably insightful and comprehensive review of China's Belt and Road Initiative, with all its implications for economic development as well as for the reshaping of the global order. America and Europe: take note! This is essential reading for us all."--Stephen Green, former chairman of HSBC, chair of Asia House, London

"A masterful overview of China's Belt and Road project . . . it's a fascinating, intriguing and terrifying story, and Maes tells it superbly."--The American Interest

"This book shows the impressive and ambitious planning of a project that would redraw the map of the global economy to put China at the centre with a transnational industrial strategy of value chain dominance."--Kori Schake, Deputy-Director General of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and author of Safe Passage

"The author has an engaging, animated writing style . . . recommended reading for those who are curious about who will rule the world when the US empire recedes."--The Jordan Times

"Bruno Macaes writes with great felicity on the expansive Chinese effort to transform the global order. His insights capture a critical moment in the evolution of world politics."-- C. Raja Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore

"A timely output . . . It will be helpful to China scholars as well as students who are keen to understand and undertake research in this area."-- Asian Affairs Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Hurst
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1787380025
• ISBN 13: 9781787380028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288