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Gold at the end of the rainbow? The BRI and the Middle East

Ehteshami, Anoush

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In 2013 China embarked on a new path of engagement with its Asian neighbours, a process which just three years later resulted in Asia's most daring and ambitious macro‐economic undertaking – an ‘initiative’ now known as China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI has the potential to transform Asia's political economy and the level of political, institutional and financial support from Beijing is underlining the importance of this major initiative to the world's fast‐emerging largest economy. The success of the BRI will place China at the heart of the international system and help it build strong organic networks across Asia, and into Europe and East Africa. But it is in the outlying regions such as Central Asia and the Middle East that the BRI's metal will be tested, as indeed China's resilience as a major power. If China is able to overcome the geopolitical, cultural, institutional and socio‐economic barriers of these Asian regions then it will have made some headway towards creating Asia's first international community, arguably an ‘Asian international society’.

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Ehteshami, A. (2018). Gold at the end of the rainbow? The BRI and the Middle East. Global Policy, 9(3), 387-397. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12552

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 9, 2018
Online Publication Date Apr 14, 2018
Publication Date Sep 30, 2018
Deposit Date Feb 16, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Global Policy
Print ISSN 1758-5880
Electronic ISSN 1758-5899
Publisher Durham University
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 9
Issue 3
Pages 387-397
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12552

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Ehteshami, Anoush (2018). Gold at the end of the rainbow? The BRI and the Middle East. Global Policy 9(3): 387-397, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12552. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.





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