TY - BOOK AU - BLANCHARD Jean-Marc F TI - Problematic prognostications about China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI): lessons from Africa and the Middle East PY - 2020/// KW - MIDDLE EAST KW - CHINA KW - MARITIME SILK ROAD INITIATIVE N2 - This study plunges into the debate by conducting a micro-level analysis of the MSRI. The macro-level analysis indicates that the MSRI is not having transformative economic effects. Neither does it show that the MSRI is significantly stalling or collapsing. The micro-level analysis, which focuses on Africa and the Middle East, demonstrates that the MSRI is being embraced and realized in different degrees and highlights reasons for this variation UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2019.1637565 ER -