China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Strategy in Eurasia and Euro-Atlanticism

Serafettin Yilmaz and Liu Changming

Europe-Asia Studies, 2018, vol. 70, issue 2, 252-276

Abstract: The focus of this article is two-pronged. First, it highlights China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) initiative as a Eurasia-centred project that, distinct from the twentieth-century Eurasianism, aims to introduce a new comprehensive integrationist agenda to the Eurasian strategic landscape. Second, it compares the US-led Euro-Atlanticism and the emerging Eurasianism, holding that while the former has historically stressed security over development (development is seen as contingent on the establishment of a hard security regime), the latter prioritises development over security (security is viewed as contingent on the establishment of an inclusive economic regime). Thus, this research argues that, if implemented successfully, OBOR could challenge Euro-Atlanticism as the long-held normative paradigm of interstate relations by offering a systemic alternative.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1435777

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