No Cover Image

Journal article 301 views 75 downloads

The ‘Great Game’ Redux? China and Development Heterodoxy in a Multi-polar World 2013–2023

Gerard Clarke

The European Journal of Development Research, Volume: 37, Issue: 5, Pages: 965 - 984

Swansea University Author: Gerard Clarke

  • 70140.VoR.pdf

    PDF | Version of Record

    © The Author(s) 2025. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

    Download (817.41KB)

Check full text

DOI (Published version): 10.1057/s41287-025-00714-8

Abstract

In the ten years between late 2013 and late 2023, China’s approach to international development evolved at pace and, by 2023, China asserted a leading role in the framing and delivery of international cooperation to support transformational change in the Global South. This article explains the basis...

Full description

Published in: The European Journal of Development Research
ISSN: 0957-8811 1743-9728
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2025
Online Access: Check full text

URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70140
Abstract: In the ten years between late 2013 and late 2023, China’s approach to international development evolved at pace and, by 2023, China asserted a leading role in the framing and delivery of international cooperation to support transformational change in the Global South. This article explains the basis for, and unpacks, China’s assertion, and the contribution it makes to evolving development heterodoxy. Adopting a constructivist approach and focusing on a conceptual trinity of institutions, infrastructure and influence, it explores: (1) new multilateral institutions and the expanded BRICS alliance; (2) The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI); and (3) China’s Global Community of Shared Future (GCSF) & Global Development Initiative (GDI) policies. China, with allies, it concludes, is engaged in a ‘great game’ in which it simultaneously cooperates and competes with Western interests that have traditionally dominated the development enterprise, fuelling development heterodoxy, and reframing development discourse to the benefit, primarily, of countries in the global South.
Keywords: China; Xi Jinping; Policy Evolution; Belt & Road Initiaitive; BRICS+; Global Development Initiative
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funders: Swansea University
Issue: 5
Start Page: 965
End Page: 984

Similar Items