Classical and Critical Geopolitics of China's Belt and Road Initiative: Examining US/Chinese Discourses on BRI

中国“一带一路”倡议的经典与批判地缘政治：审视中美关于“一带一路”的话语

• 批准号: 2236327
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2236327
• 关键词: Classical; Critical; Geopolitics; China; Belt

This research considers the key question around China's Belt and Road Initiative from the perspective of geopolitics - whether it poses a challenge to US hegemony - by examining US and Chinese official/non-official discourses on BRI. It adopts a geopolitical approach, which attempts to overcome the limited view of spatiality in traditional IR (Agnew, 1994), to explore how US and Chinese actors view the geopolitical landscape of BRI as terrain for great power competition (Mearsheimer, 2001) or cooperation (Xi, 2017). Thus, this research offers new perspectives on the debate "Can China Rise Peacefully?", while bridging the gap between the classical and critical branches of geopolitics by combining the realist focus of the former with discourse analysis of the latter. It also brings the "geographies of peace" (McConnell et al, 2014) framework into conversation with the literature on China's rise, exploring different conceptions of peace by the various geopolitical actors. Intertextual discourse analysis (Hansen, 2006) will be undertaken on governmental, academic, and 'grey' literature. Additional interviews with key actors (policymakers, academics and officials) will help to triangulate the discourses identified, as well as their interactions with each other. This will combine both desk research and fieldwork in the USA and China, with the possibility for significant research dissemination across both locales and further afield. Engaging with both theory and policy, this research will make a distinctive contribution to the scholarship on the growing competition between China and America by shedding light on both side's fears and goals around the impact of BRI.

本研究从地缘政治的角度，通过考察中美两国关于“一带一路”倡议的官方/非官方话语，探讨了中国“一带一路”倡议的关键问题--它是否对美国霸权构成挑战。它采用了地缘政治的方法，试图克服传统IR中有限的空间观（Agnew，1994），探讨美国和中国的参与者如何将BRI的地缘政治景观视为大国竞争（Mearsheimer，2001）或合作（Xi，2017）的地形。因此，本研究为“中国能否和平崛起”的争论提供了新的视角。“，同时通过将古典地缘政治学的现实主义焦点与批判地缘政治学的话语分析相结合，弥合了古典地缘政治学与批判地缘政治学之间的差距。它还将“和平地理”（McConnell et al，2014）框架与中国崛起的文献进行了对话，探索了各种地缘政治行为体对和平的不同概念。互文性话语分析（汉森，2006）将在政府，学术和“灰色”文学进行。与主要行为者（决策者、学者和官员）的进一步访谈将有助于对所确定的话语及其相互之间的互动进行三角测量。这将结合联合收割机在美国和中国的案头研究和实地考察，有可能在两个地区和更远的地方进行重要的研究传播。本研究将结合理论和政策，通过阐明双方对“一带一路”影响的担忧和目标，为研究中美之间日益激烈的竞争做出独特的贡献。