ABSTRACT
One of the many questions raised in discussions of the Chinese government’s “belt and road initiative” – most commonly known as “One Belt, One Road” – is whether its vision of land and maritime connectivity between Asia, Europe and Africa is intended to challenge an existing global order, or rather is supportive of or structured by it. Put in the terms used by International Relations (IR) scholars, is the initiative revisionist, reformist, status quo-orientated or something else?
