title: The Belt and Road Initiative and international relations theories: Challenges and a new research agenda
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metadata.value: Yuan, Hang
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metadata.value: 2020-06-26T13:16:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-06-26T13:16:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Hang Yuan. The Belt and Road Initiative and international relations theories: Challenges and a new research agenda. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2020, vol. 13, issue 1, pp. 33–46.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2020.103
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/18348
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metadata.value: The majority of existing research on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) focuses primarily on its
  operation in past years. However, efforts to deepen an understanding of the BRI itself remain at
  an early stage. Some fundamental questions on its nature, scope, process and implications still
  remain and require clearer answers or even more debates. Scholars who fail to consider these
  larger questions risk developing their arguments on premature assumptions on the BRI and
  consequently overlooking very important elements of it. From the discipline of international
  relations (IR), this article aims to identify some key questions to the BRI and recommend a
  new research agenda. It argues that IR scholars face challenges to examine the BRI due to the
  BRI itself, as a puzzle, and limits of current dominant IR trends. This article suggests that a
  better understanding of the BRI involves a more open-minded conceptualization of it. The
  new research agenda on the BRI proposes to focus on five themes and related key questions
  and hypotheses. In order to tackle the complexity of the BRI, this agenda calls for more creative
  efforts, including a combination of various theoretical perspectives, and incorporation of
  more elements of non-western wisdom into analytical frameworks, including China and
  other countries. Being aware of the debates of incommensurability between paradigms and
  perspectives, this article suggests a pragmatic approach in acquiring knowledge on the BRI.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Belt and Road Initiative
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metadata.value: international relations
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metadata.value: research agenda
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metadata.value: The Belt and Road Initiative and international relations theories: Challenges and a new research agenda
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