In an article published in the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (CFPJ) online in February 2024, Lunting Wu examines Brazil and Chile’s divergent approaches to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in South America.
Current BRI-related literature falls short of consistently explaining countries’ foreign policy decisions towards the BRI. In discerning the reasons why developing countries that are economically dependent on China joined the BRI or not, this article argues that countries’ different role constellations with China shape their foreign policy vis-à-vis the BRI. It contends that under a congruent role constellation – in which the conception of a cooperative role with China is congruent with other roles, foreign policymakers are inclined to form a benign perception of the BRI. This study focuses on Brazil and Chile’s enactment of different roles, and concludes that Brazil’s conflicting role constellation and Chile’s congruent role constellation have led them to formulate opposite approaches towards the BRI.
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About the Author
Lunting Wu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), associate in the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” and the Center for European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin, as well as a fellow of FGV Europe and the Instituto do Oriente of the University of Lisbon.
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