الضرورة النظرية للواقعية الكلاسيكية الجديدة في سياق التحليل الجيوسياسي لمشروع الطريق و الحزام

Abstract EN

This paper argues for using the neo-classical realist approach for analyzing Chinese foreign policy decisions regarding the belt and road initiative, particularly for the initiative's geopolitical repercussions.

for this purpose, the paper starts by discussing the inevitability of revisionism, and revisionist action in the Eurasian region following the shift in the balance of power due to china's rocketing economic reach in BRI countries.

the paper then describes the internal decision-making factors influencing the BRI's birth and direction, and it follows this with a brief case study of the indirect Sino-Russian economic competition in Kazakhstan, and the geopolitical results of this trilateral interaction.

finally, the paper concludes by restating the importance of the geopolitical component and its repercussions in any approach to analyzing the BRI.