Beijing’s Pivot West: The Convergence of Innenpolitik and Aussenpolitik on China’s ‘Belt and Road’?

Clarke, M

Beijing’s Pivot West: The Convergence of Innenpolitik and Aussenpolitik on China’s ‘Belt and Road’?

Clarke, M

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Publisher:: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Contemporary China, 2020, 29, (123), pp. 336-353
Issue Date:: 2020-05-03

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dc.contributor.author	Clarke, M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-9586
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-30T09:01:05Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-30T09:01:05Z
dc.date.issued	2020-05-03
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Contemporary China, 2020, 29, (123), pp. 336-353
dc.identifier.issn	1067-0564
dc.identifier.issn	1469-9400
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/162923
dc.description.abstract	This article seeks to contribute to ongoing debates about the causes and consequences of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It argues via a neoclassical realist analysis that BRI can be seen as the product of the convergence of Aussenpolitik (foreign policy) and Innenpolitik (domestic politics) factors in China’s grand strategy, specifically enduring desires to balance against American primacy and to secure China’s frontier regions such as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The article concludes that the intersection of these objectives with the geopolitical logic of BRI (i.e. combating American primacy in the maritime domain of the Indo-Pacific through China-led Eurasian integration) provides an explanation for the timing and intensity of Beijing’s imposition of a pervasive ‘security state’ in Xinjiang.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Contemporary China
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/10670564.2019.1645485
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject.classification	Cultural Studies
dc.title	Beijing’s Pivot West: The Convergence of Innenpolitik and Aussenpolitik on China’s ‘Belt and Road’?
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	29
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (International)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (International)/Australia-China Relations Institute
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dc.date.updated	2022-10-30T09:01:04Z
pubs.issue	123
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	29
utslib.citation.issue	123

Abstract:

This article seeks to contribute to ongoing debates about the causes and consequences of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It argues via a neoclassical realist analysis that BRI can be seen as the product of the convergence of Aussenpolitik (foreign policy) and Innenpolitik (domestic politics) factors in China’s grand strategy, specifically enduring desires to balance against American primacy and to secure China’s frontier regions such as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The article concludes that the intersection of these objectives with the geopolitical logic of BRI (i.e. combating American primacy in the maritime domain of the Indo-Pacific through China-led Eurasian integration) provides an explanation for the timing and intensity of Beijing’s imposition of a pervasive ‘security state’ in Xinjiang.

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