Implications of the war in Ukraine on the Belt and Road Initiative

Prebilič, Vladimir (author), Jereb, Vid (author)

The war in Ukraine will have broad implications for the European region and the world as a whole. It has already changed the intricate balance in the world order influencing great power competition rendering some geostrategic priorities obsolete while reinforcing others. The biggest geo-economic project of the People’s Republic of China (PRC): the Belt and Road (BRI) initiative, will be no exception. The transport and energy flows of BRI will be disrupted due to the new Iron Curtain descending across Europe in the form of sanctions against aggressors in the war in Ukraine. To balance this in the short term, the PRC will have to reroute much of its BRI cargo and projects into other corridors. In the long term, the PRC will attempt to divert Russian resources from the West to itself within the BRI framework, thus rendering western sanctions ineffective and assuring the long-term success of the BRI.

• Language: English
• Keywords: War in Ukraine, Belt and Road Initiative, geo-economics, China
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 7 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 12, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-140623
• UDC: 355.01(477):339.92(510)
• ISSN on article: 2451-2249
• DOI: 10.26881/jpgs.2022.2.01
• COBISS.SI-ID: 121511427
• Publication date in RUL: 16.09.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of geography, politics and society
• Shortened title: J. Geogr. Politics Soc.
• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
• ISSN: 2451-2249
• COBISS.SI-ID: 63144034

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 16.09.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Mednarodni odnosi, Geopolitika, Vojna