BELT AND ROAD DECISION-MAKING IN CHINA AND RECIPIENT COUNTRIES: HOW AND TO WHAT EXTENT DOES SUSTAINABILITY MATTER?

In April this year Thomas Hale, Associate Professor of Global Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, and co authors Liu Chuyu and Johannes Urpelainen published an in-depth look at the complex and dynamic network of actors who make and shape the Belt and Road Initiative.

With an underlying guiding question of “how and to what extent does sustainability matter?” to these actors, the three researchers dug into the roles and relations of key Chinese government ministries, banks, state owned companies and recipient country governments. Interviews with different levels of staff in these entities furnish the report with some unique insights available into what can be a bewildering canvas of players and their dynamic relations, contributing much to our understanding of the decision making process on the Belt and Road.

Dr. Thomas Hale is Associate Professor of Global Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. His research seeks to explain how political institutions evolve – or not – to face the challenges raised by globalisation and interdependence, with a particular emphasis on environmental and economic issues.

The co-authored report, Belt and Road Decision Making in China and Recipient Countries: How and to what extent does sustainability matter?, is available in full HERE.