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dc.contributor.authorOwen, C
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-02T11:38:23Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-21
dc.description.abstractThis essay considers the nature of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Central Asia. Rather than a “grand strategy” coordinated by Beijing, it is better seen as a decentered, contradictory network of transnational clientelist relationships and semiautonomous profit-seeking institutions. While building much-needed infrastructure, these projects serve to enrich local political elites while fueling resentment and suspicion among their populations. Evidence for this argument is presented from three spheres: the principal implementers of the BRI, the main projects that have been enacted under its auspices in Central Asia, and examples of how these projects have been marred by elite corruption and local protest.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 119 (819), pp. 264 - 269en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1525/curh.2020.119.819.264
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/123457
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of California Pressen_GB
dc.rights© 2020 University of California Pressen_GB
dc.subjectChinaen_GB
dc.subjectBelt and Road Initiativeen_GB
dc.subjectCentral Asiaen_GB
dc.subjecteconomyen_GB
dc.subjectinfrastructureen_GB
dc.subjectcorruptionen_GB
dc.titleThe Belt and Road Initiative’s Central Asian Contradictionsen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2020-11-02T11:38:23Z
dc.identifier.issn0011-3530
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available from the University of California Press via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalCurrent Historyen_GB
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2020-09-21
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2020-11-02T11:36:43Z
refterms.versionFCDVoR
refterms.dateFOA2020-11-02T11:38:28Z
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