Still a Work in Progress: The Ongoing Evolution of the Role Conception Underlying China’s Belt and Road Initiative

稳步推进：中国“一带一路”倡议下的角色概念不断演变

Abstract: Ten years after its proposition, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a cornerstone of China’s foreign policy. It paved the way for China to develop into an active global power shaping global norms and institutions. Applying a role theoretical perspective, the key principles and mechanisms at the heart of the BRI are outlined as well as the dynamic evolution of both the BRI narrative and key contents by highlighting in the Belt and Road Forums of 2017 and 2019. The paper argues that the BRI constitute a unilateral change of China’s role conception for global economic governance (GEG). This interpretation of the BRI demonstrates that China is now presenting a model for GEG to other countries and that both the contents and the way it is presented continues to evolve. In this regard, a role theoretical reading of the BRI highlights both dynamic as well as pragmatic elements of foreign policy making under Xi Jinping.

摘要：自“一带一路”倡议提出10年来，该倡议已成为中国外交政策的一块基石，为中国发展成为一个积极塑造国际规范和制度的大国铺平了道路。本文采用角色理论视角，以2017年和2019年“一带一路”论坛的亮点内容为切入点，概述了“一带一路”倡议进程和其主要内容的动态演变以及该倡议的核心原则和机制。本文认为：“一带一路”倡议是中国对全球经济治理（GEG）角色概念的单方面改变，这种解读表明，中国正在向其他国家展示其全球经济治理的模式，且其内容和展示方式都在不断演变。本文从角色理论视角对“一带一路”倡议进行解读，不仅凸显了习近平制定外交政策的动态因素，也突出了其中的务实因素。

Key words: China; Belt and Road Initiative; foreign policy; role theory; narratives; global economic governance

关键词：中国；“一带一路 ”倡议；外交政策；角色理论；演变进程；全球经济治理

来源: https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2024.2311891

发表时间：2024-2-28

检索：郑安然

翻译：何玥

一审：翟雅婷

二审：彭莉

三审：罗玲娟

上传发布：姜浩