Jeremy Garlick: Belt & Road, CPEC, Pipe Dreams, & Geopolitical Realities
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Professor Jeremy Garlick provides his informed analysis on China’s Belt & Road (BRI) and why he believes it is the main game in town in terms of a coordinated strategy to transform global affairs given that the other contenders in the global ‘great game’ of the 21st century (US, EU, Russia, Japan, India) have not managed to present coherent visions of how the international order should develop. However, he does feel the initial vision of BRI has been blunted by a set of failings and badly planned projects. He also discusses the idea that BRI may have inadvertently been a response to Obama and Clinton’s “Pivot to Asia”. His discusses the Iran-China relationship, his forthcoming book on CPEC which he views as a main artery of the New Silk Road, what role Afghanistan might play, Chinese investment in Europe, and the Dragonbear alliance.
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Show Notes
Taliban rolls out red carpet to China’s Belt and Road Initiative https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Afghanistan-turmoil/Taliban-rolls-out-red-carpet-to-China-s-Belt-and-Road-Initiative
The China-Iran Deal: Mirage or Game Changer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZtNRXUhPFU
Can the SCO be regional body that stabilises Afghanistan? https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/afghanistan-crisis-sco-central-asia-regional-cooperation-7506947
Books
The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Asia to Europe https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Chinas-Belt-Road-Initiative-ebook/dp/B081LKXFJZ
Reconfiguring the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Geo-Economic Pipe Dreams Versus Geopolitical Realities https://www.amazon.com/Reconfiguring-China-Pakistan-Economic-Corridor-Geo-Economic/dp/0367863219
Websites
Academia https://jeremygarlick.academia.edu
Twitter https://twitter.com/jeremy_garlick
Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies https://fir.vse.cz/research/jan-masaryk-centre-for-international-studies/about
About Jeremy Garlick
Jeremy Garlick is the director of the Jan Masaryk Centre of International Studies, a research centre of the Faculty of International Relations. He specialises in China’s international relations and international relations theory. He has published impact articles on a diverse range of topics, including China’s economic diplomacy in Central and Eastern Europe, and China’s regionalising foreign policy in South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. His book, The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Asia to Europe, was published by Routledge in 2019. Dr Garlick has lectured for three decades at institutes of higher education in Asia and Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Associate Professor Jeremy Garlich, who is also the director of the J. |
| 0:06.0 | Masarik Center of International Studies at Prague University of Economics and Business. |
| 0:10.9 | He is the author of the impact of China's Belt and Road Initiative from Asia to Europe |
| 0:15.5 | and the forthcoming reconfiguring the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Geo-economic Pipe Dreams versus Geopolitical |
| 0:23.0 | Realities. Thank you for joining the podcast. Jeremy, how are things in the Czech Republic? |
| 0:28.3 | Thank you for inviting me. And things in the Czech Republic at the moment, it's been looking good |
| 0:34.5 | the last four or five months with the COVID pandemic. |
| 0:38.2 | But we're all afraid of a new wave coming in the autumn. |
| 0:41.7 | So we'll see. |
| 0:42.6 | But at the moment, pretty good, pretty good. |
| 0:45.1 | I mean, it's pretty, the lockdown ended and we're doing well. |
| 0:48.3 | So it's fine. |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah, I would think Czech Republic is at least not a bad place to be locked down and hopefully |
| 0:54.8 | things, hopefully we can end with this pandemic. |
| 0:59.3 | So, you know, let's hope for that. |
| 1:00.9 | Before I get to my first question, let me just again, you know, public service announcement, |
| 1:06.3 | remind listeners to subscribe to the geopolitics and empire email list, telegram, Twitter, |
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| 1:12.0 | especially because the podcast is censored. And I'm doing this full time now, so your donations |
| 1:16.8 | are duly appreciated. Now, Professor Garlick, I've inadvertently been doing a number of podcasts |
| 1:23.3 | on China. I've had guests who sort of promote China's Belt and Road as something like an |
| 1:28.7 | infrastructure project from heaven that's going to save the world. Others who view China's forays |
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