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Title: | International linkages, geopolitics, and the belt and road initiative : a comparison of four island territories | Authors: | Kwong, YH Wong, MYH |
Issue Date: | Nov-2020 | Source: | Island studies journal, Nov. 2020, v. 15, no. 2, p. 131-154 | Abstract: | Existing literature has placed a strong emphasis on foreign linkages for the sustainability of island territories. However, studies have largely focused the effect of Western linkages, leaving the rise of Asian linkages unexplored. Such an investigation is of increasing significance given China’s rise in global politics and its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This article explains island territories’ inclination towards this newfound Chinese influence by comparing two Danish island territories and two Chinese island territories and argues that island territories with strong international linkages tend to face more challenges to accept the BRI, as demonstrated by the cases of Greenland and Hong Kong with stronger US strategic, military, and diplomatic linkages; and vice versa for the Faroe Islands and Macau with relatively weak international linkages. This paper contributes to the literature by moving beyond internal factors, including island types, sizes, and peripheralities, to explore how external factors, namely foreign linkages in international politics, from an alternative geopolitical perspective. | Keywords: | Belt and road initiative China Economic dependence Geopolitics Islands United states |
Publisher: | University of Prince Edward Island, Institute of Island Studies | Journal: | Island studies journal | EISSN: | 1715-2593 | DOI: | 10.24043/isj.127 | Rights: | © 2020—Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution: No Derivative Works Licence. Island Studies Journal applies this Creative Commons designation to the work it publishes: CC-BY-ND: This license allows for redistribution, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to the original author. The following publication Kwong, YH, & Wong MYH (2020). International linkages, geopolitics, and the belt and road initiative: A comparison of four island territories, 15(2), 131-154 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.24043/isj.127 |
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