Projektbeschreibung
Die Logik hinter chinesischen Investitionen in Europa verstehen
Europa und China sind seit langem Handelspartner. Vom Zugang zu neuen Technologien, Hightech-Assets und Wissen bis hin zum kommerziellen Zugang zum europäischen Markt – Chinas Interesse an Europa ist groß. China ist heute das größte Importland der EU. Ferner betrachtet China Europa als fruchtbaren Boden für neue Infrastrukturinvestitionen. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt REDEFINE möchte folgende Fragen beantworten: Was ist die Logik hinter chinesischen Investitionen in Europa und welche geopolitische Dynamik bildet den Rahmen dieser Finanzierungsströme? Wie sind die Vorhaben strukturiert und wie tangieren sie die nationale und lokale Entwicklungspolitik? Unter Verwendung einer Kombinationsmethodik werden die Auswirkungen von Vorhaben zu Vorhaben ermittelt. Hierbei werden Fallstudien im Vereinigten Königreich, Deutschland, Griechenland und Ungarn durchgeführt.
Ziel
REDEFINE will examine what Chinas rise means for how we understand global development and, specifically, Europes place in it. After 15 years of going out to access raw materials and new markets, often in the global South, China is making assertive moves into developed economies, which were boosted by the Belt and Road Initiative linking China to Europe. At the same time, many European economies stagnated following the 2008 financial crisis with governments cutting infrastructure investment and seeking alternative sources of finance. China now sees Europe as fertile ground for new infrastructure investment, yet many European firms and governments are ill-equipped to deal with these political and economic changes. The first wave of Chinese internationalisation into the global South has been analysed largely from the perspective of international Development Studies. In the current phase, Chinas move westwards radically questions the meanings and loci of development. REDEFINEs innovation is to use insights from international development to interrogate Chinese engagement in the heart of Europe and by doing so re-orient the Eurocentric debates in the social sciences around how we define and delimit development, who drives these processes, and what it means for societies affected by such investments. REDEFINEs aims require a disaggregated approach to unpack project-by-project effects, which will be undertaken using an assemblage methodology. Through comparative, ethnographic case studies in the UK, Germany, Greece and Hungary REDEFINE will produce fine-grained analysis to understand the rationales for Chinese investment in Europe, the geopolitical dynamics surrounding these financing streams, the structuring of projects, and how they interface with national and local development policy. By better understanding how investment deals operate, REDEFINE will connect Chinese and European government and corporate actors in order to influence their strategies and practices.
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(öffnet in neuem Fenster) ERC-2019-ADG
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ERC-ADG -Gastgebende Einrichtung
MK7 6AA Milton Keynes
Vereinigtes Königreich