Domestic Politics as Fuel for China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The Case of the Gulf Monarchies

Jonathan Fulton, Zayed University

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Journal of Contemporary China

Publication Date

3-3-2020

Abstract

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. China’s involvement with the Gulf monarchies has been built upon an economic foundation. With the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) this has expanded, as the Gulf monarchies see cooperation with China through MSRI projects as a means of advancing economic development programs necessary to move beyond single-resource rentier economies and relationships with external powers as a means of ensuring their security in an unstable region. This has important implications for the shape of the MSRI as a whole, and how it fits together with the larger BRI. China’s BRI/MSRI success with participating states will be a matter of matching their specific domestic needs and strategic considerations with Chinese perceptions of the relative importance of those states.

ISSN

1067-0564

Publisher

Routledge

Volume

29

Issue

122

First Page

175

Last Page

190

Disciplines

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Keywords

economic development, international relations, national politics, political conflict, political economy, political relations, China

Scopus ID

85068589779

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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