Belt and road initiative in world politics
Journal: Digital Library of the Belarusian State University (Belarusian State University)
Year: 2019

The article provides an overview of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), analyzing the reasons of its introduction, the problems of its implementation and its role in world politics. The following topics are addressed: the evolution of world politics in the XXI century that created the necessary preconditions for the BRI; the reasons and problems of the BRI-Eurasian Economic Union conjugation; the ambivalent attitude of the European Union towards the BRI; India’s and Japan’s problems with