Ye Discusses China’s BRI on fDi Podcast

Min Ye, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, appeared on the fDi Intelligece podcast to discuss China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and how it was born of crisis, not desire for control.

The BRI, China’s economic development strategy adopted in 2013, has undergone various permutations in Chinese and global imaginaries alike. Far from aligning with the view that it is the expression of a one-party state looking to dominate the region, Ye examines the BRI from a domestic perspective in her recently published book The Belt Road and Beyond: State Mobilized Globalization in China, 1998–2018.

The full podcast can be listened to below.

Min Ye is the author of Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Making of Northeast Asia (with Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, 2010). Her most recent book, titled The Belt Road and Beyond: State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018 (Cambridge University Press 2020), explores the motivations and strategies behind China’s global economic expansion and considers the implications of the country’s status as a global power on both China and the world. Read more about Ye on her faculty profile.