China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A New Model of Economic Governance?

中国的“一带一路”倡议涉及全球数千个项目，总价值超过1万亿美元。在“一带一路”倡议下，中国正在构建管理国际经济活动的新规范和法律制度。但“一带一路”倡议的不透明性意味着，人们对这些安排的细节和实际运作知之甚少。这个社会法律项目将研究“一带一路”倡议如何改变跨境经济互动的治理方式，并探讨这些变化对全球经济中权力和权威如何行使的影响。该项目的研究结果将使澳大利亚的政策制定者、企业和公众能够更敏锐地驾驭“一带一路”倡议所带来的变化。

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) involves thousands of projects in the world, with a combined value over USD 1 trillion. Under the BRI, China is constructing new norms and legal institutions to govern international economic activity. But the opacity of the BRI means that little is known about the details of these arrangements or their operation in practice. This socio-legal project will examine how the BRI is changing the way that cross-border economic interactions are governed, and explore the implications of these changes for how power and authority are exercised in the global economy. The project’s findings will equip Australian policymakers, businesses and publics to navigate more astutely the changes that the BRI is advancing.