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"Explains how China spreads its global influence via infrastructure development and exports of digital technologies and standards. This book will appeal to policymakers, business leaders, students and scholars of Chinese politics and foreign policy, economic development, international business, international relations, and comparative politics"--
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Market failures and China's chance to lead; 3. Measuring infrastructure needs and foreign infrastructure investment; 4. Theory: why countries vary in their participation in the belt and road initiative; 5. Measuring clientelism and the corporate sector across political regimes; 6. Political regimes and BRI country level patterns; 7. Political regimes and BRI project characteristics; 8. Case studies of political regimes and the BRI; 9. Chinese exports of digital technologies and standards; 10. Conclusions and implications .
About the author
Richard W. Carney has lived and worked in China since 2017. He has extensive experience teaching both Chinese and global executives, as well as policymakers from across the Asia Pacific. An advisor to the World Bank for its flagship project Businesses of the State, Carney is the author of Authoritarian Capitalism (Cambridge, 2018) which won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.
Summary
Explains how China spreads its global influence via infrastructure development and exports of digital technologies and standards. This book will appeal to policymakers, business leaders, students and scholars of Chinese politics and foreign policy, economic development, international business, international relations, and comparative politics.
Foreword
Explains China's growing global influence by considering the interests of both China and countries which receive Chinese investment.
