A Framework for the Study of the One Belt One Road Initiative as a Medium of Principle Diffusion

Abstract

Anastas Vangeli sees the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative as a facilitating process in which normative matrices and decisions in countries involved in the initiative are influenced by the thinking and practice of Chinese policymakers and intellectuals. The chapter applies the theory of diffusion, discussing the appropriateness of the diffusion approach to the OBOR initiative with regard to the object and logic of diffusion. The study concludes that as a cumulative outcome, the OBOR initiative is both inside and outside of hegemonic market neoliberalism, seeking a way to advance economic globalization through state-led cooperation.