Towards a Balanced Synergy of Visions and Interests : Latvia's Perspectives in 16+1 and Belt and Road Initiatives
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2017-08-01
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The article analyses China's 16+1 and Belt and Road initiatives from Latvia's perspective. Although the initiatives provide engagement on a large scale, it is challenging to achieve the task of achieving a synergy between a variety of stakeholders and interests in the context of a diversity of visions and agendas. The strategic dimension of transcontinental initiatives complicates further the building of synergy. Connectivity is an important and promising principle of both initiatives and transcontinental infrastructural linkages are especially high on the agenda. Mutually beneficial progress, however, must yet be achieved. In times of uncertainty, Central and Eastern European countries, including Latvia, are engaged in a balancing process of potential economic benefits and strategic implications of the 16+1 and Belt and Road initiatives.
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Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Andris Spruds, published by De Gruyter Open.
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China's Belt and Road Initiative, China-CEEC, connectivity, Latvia, 5.6 Political science, 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database, Political Science and International Relations
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Spruds, A 2017, 'Towards a Balanced Synergy of Visions and Interests : Latvia's Perspectives in 16+1 and Belt and Road Initiatives', Croatian International Relations Review, vol. 23, no. 78, pp. 37-56. https://doi.org/10.1515/cirr-2017-0006