The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Regime Fragility: Explaining China’s International Efforts at Solving Regime Insecurity

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss China’s sources of regime insecurity, its impact on world peace and conflict and how the regime addresses these challenges. How does China’s regime insecurity affect international relations, peace and conflict and how is it responding to such challenge in order not to disturb international peace and cooperation? How do China’s public reactions affect international relations, conflict, peace and cooperation? It argues that China’s regime insecurity caused by strong nationalist emotions and domestic discontent is a potential source of impediment on world peace than its external strength. By using foreign policy initiative and primary sources, the paper shows that, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one course of action the Chinese regime addresses its challenges. Specifically, China is strengthening regime security and external peace through foreign policy – providing for the international dimension of the domestic threat – by trying to decrease domestic discontent through securing international commercial activities with its BRI, to stem horizontal inequalities and regime insecurity. I base the theoretical argument on the diversionary war theory. The paper helps fill the gap in the discussion of China and international security which has been dominated by China’s rise in power capabilities.

Keywords

• China
• Peace and Conflict
• the Belt and Road Initiative
• Regime Insecurity and Survival
• Nationalist Emotions
• Diversionary War

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Regime Fragility: Explaining China’s International Efforts at Solving Regime Insecurity

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı Çin’in rejim güvensizliği kaynaklarını, dünya barışı ve çatışması üzerindeki etkisini ve rejimin bu zorlukları nasıl ele aldığını tartışmaktır. Çin’in rejimdeki güvensizliği uluslararası ilişkileri, barışı ve çatışmayı nasıl etkiliyor ve uluslararası barış ve işbirliğini rahatsız etmemek için bu tür zorluklara nasıl yanıt veriyor? Çin’in kamuoyu tepkileri uluslararası ilişkileri, çatışmayı, barışı ve işbirliğini nasıl etkiliyor? Çin'in güçlü milliyetçi duyguların ve iç hoşnutsuzluğun neden olduğu rejim güvensizliğinin, dünya barışı üzerinde dış gücünden potansiyel bir engel kaynağı olduğunu savunuyor. Dış politika inisiyatifini ve birincil kaynakları kullanarak, çalışma, Kemer ve Yol Girişimi'nin (BRI) Çin rejiminin zorluklarını ele aldığı bir eylem biçimi olduğunu göstermektedir. Özellikle Çin, BRI ile uluslararası ticari faaliyetleri güvence altına alarak, yatay eşitsizlikleri ve rejimdeki güvensizliği ortadan kaldırmak amacıyla, iç tehdidin uluslararası boyutunu sağlayan dış politika yoluyla rejim güvenliğini ve dış barışı güçlendirmektedir. Teorik argümanı saptırma savaş teorisine dayandırıyorum. Bu makale, Çin'in güç yeteneklerindeki yükselişin egemen olduğu uluslararası güvenlik tartışması ve Çin'in tartışmasındaki boşluğu doldurmaya yardımcı oluyor.

Keywords

• Çin
• barış ve çatışma
• kemer ve yol girişimi
• rejim güvensizliği ve hayatta kalma
• milliyetçi duygular
• saptırma savaşı

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