04684nam a22006015i 4500 978-981-97-9511-6 DE-He213 20251030114946.0 cr nn 008mamaa 250225s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819795116 978-981-97-9511-6 10.1007/978-981-97-9511-6 doi GN301-674 JHMC bicssc SOC002000 bisacsh JHMC thema The Impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia [electronic resource] : Evaluating Risks and Benefits / edited by Yos Santasombat, Kian Cheng LEE. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024. X, 241 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda China’s Engagement in the Multilateral Platforms: The GDI, BRI, and LMC and the Reshaping of the Global Governance -- The Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia and the Belt and Road Initiative -- Taking Stock of Ten Years of BRI Projects in Malaysia -- The Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone: the Chinese State-Owned Enterprise’s Business Practices and the Local Responses -- NESTING FOR EAGLES TO LAY EGGS: How did public critiques transformed SEZ policy in Vietnam -- Chinese Nomadic Recycling Industry: A Socio-ecological Fix in the BRI-EEC Alignment -- Impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative in Lao PDR on the Transborder Cattle Trade in Southeast Asia -- Seeing the Silent Voices: Understanding Local Responses to China's Railway Construction in Laos and Thailand -- Chinese Agricultural investment and Land Governance in Southeast Asia. Drawing insights from intensive empirical investigation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in various Southeast Asian countries, this book assesses and analyzes the continuing impact of China’s BRI on Thailand and ASEAN at a critical period of Southeast Asian history. Over the past decade, the BRI, a large flagship foreign policy effort of President Xi Jinping, has had a significant economic, political, and environmental impact across the world. Since its inception, the BRI has remained shrouded in confusion and controversy. The Covid-19 pandemic also presented additional challenges for our understanding of the BRI that warrant further exploration. This volume places special focus on special economic zones (SEZs) and high-speed train projects, and comparatively examines and critically analyzes the risks and benefits stemming from these megaprojects. Breaking away from existing academic studies on the BRI, which have been largely based on macro analysis with a top-down approach and theoretical deliberation, this book focuses on local realities with a qualitative approach to identify the potential impact of the BRI on the development of ASEAN countries. By way of a bottom-up, empirically-rich, first-hand ethnographic account of the risks and benefits of the BRI projects at the local, national, and regional levels in ASEAN, this book makes a substantial contribution to multiple disciplinary arenas, from anthropology, sociology, and history, to political science and international relations, with particular relevance to those researching China and its relationships with Southeast Asia. Ethnology. 58687 China History. 66901 Asia Politics and government. 69658 Anthropology. 60002 Regionalism. 70424 Economic development. 58075 Ethnography. 70800 History of China. 66903 Asian Politics. 69661 Anthropology. 60002 Regionalism. 70424 Economic Development, Innovation and Growth. 69035 Santasombat, Yos. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 90932 Cheng LEE, Kian. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 90933 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819795109 Printed edition: 9789819795123 Printed edition: 9789819795130 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9511-6 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 66778 66778