BRICS, BELTS, AND ROADS: LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR A GLOBAL HEGEMON?: How do BRICS and the Belt and Road Initiative compare in helping China achieve its goals as an emerging hegemon?
Translated title
BRICS, BELTS, AND ROADS: LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR A GLOBAL HEGEMON?
Author
Rae, Kristoffer Torben
Term
4. term
Publication year
2020
Submitted on
2020-05-15
Pages
37
Abstract
Kinas voksende globale rolle har længe været diskuteret. Dette speciale undersøger, hvordan to centrale strategier—BRICS, et samarbejde mellem store vækstøkonomier, og Belt and Road-initiativet, et omfattende netværk for infrastruktur og handel—kan hjælpe Kina med at opbygge indflydelse. Med udgangspunkt i strukturel realisme (en teori, der fremhæver, hvordan det internationale system former staters adfærd) og hegemoni-teori (som ser på, hvordan ledende magter opnår og fastholder dominans) sammenlignes de to tilgange for at forstå Kinas mål som en fremvoksende hegemon i en mere multipolær verden. Analysen ser på de mekanismer, hver strategi tilbyder—partnerskab blandt ligemænd versus udbygning af forbindelser og økonomiske bånd—og hvad det kan betyde for international udvikling og magtbalancer.
China’s growing global role has been widely discussed. This thesis examines how two major strategies—BRICS, a partnership of large emerging economies, and the Belt and Road Initiative, a broad infrastructure and trade network—may help China build influence. Using structural realism (a theory that highlights how the international system shapes state behavior) and hegemony theory (which studies how leading powers gain and maintain leadership), it compares the two approaches to understand China’s goals as an emerging hegemon in a more multipolar world. The analysis looks at the mechanisms each offers—peer cooperation versus expanding connectivity and economic ties—and what this may mean for international development and power balances.
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