TY - CHAP
T1 - Health, Road, and Russia
T2 - Perspectives on Russian Involvement with China’s Health Silk Road
AU - Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Una Aleksandra
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - This chapter explores the degree of Russian involvement in the China-proposed offshoot of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): The Health Silk Road (HSR) since in 2015 until the most recent developments in 2021. Thus, the chapter focuses on a previously understudied faucet of Sino-Russian cooperation in general and its outlooks towards BRI in particular, namely, health. The topicality is exacerbated by the pandemic realities faced by both nations. Research questions include: how has the format developed vis-à-vis Russia so far? What is the degree of Russian engagement and what are its perspectives in the future? And ultimately: How does HSR measure against Russia's BRI outlooks overall? This chapter presents the logic behind the HSR and the Chinese expectations, looks at the Russian response, outlines the perspectives of the engagement, and addresses the ambiguity of the Russian participation, ultimately concluding that the lack of Russian commitment towards the HSR falls into the trend of the Russian approach towards the BRI in general. Adopting a constructivist conceptual lens, the chapter sets political discourse analysis as the theoretical research framework, and employs qualitative methodology.
AB - This chapter explores the degree of Russian involvement in the China-proposed offshoot of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): The Health Silk Road (HSR) since in 2015 until the most recent developments in 2021. Thus, the chapter focuses on a previously understudied faucet of Sino-Russian cooperation in general and its outlooks towards BRI in particular, namely, health. The topicality is exacerbated by the pandemic realities faced by both nations. Research questions include: how has the format developed vis-à-vis Russia so far? What is the degree of Russian engagement and what are its perspectives in the future? And ultimately: How does HSR measure against Russia's BRI outlooks overall? This chapter presents the logic behind the HSR and the Chinese expectations, looks at the Russian response, outlines the perspectives of the engagement, and addresses the ambiguity of the Russian participation, ultimately concluding that the lack of Russian commitment towards the HSR falls into the trend of the Russian approach towards the BRI in general. Adopting a constructivist conceptual lens, the chapter sets political discourse analysis as the theoretical research framework, and employs qualitative methodology.
KW - Russia
KW - China
KW - Belt and Road
KW - Health Silk Road
KW - Covid-19
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/5b679dd5-13b0-3f0b-8d16-d7d956c83dcd/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85161855483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-19-6700-9_26
DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-6700-9_26
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-981-19-6699-6
T3 - The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics
SP - 447
EP - 458
BT - The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics
A2 - Duarte, Paulo Afonso B.
A2 - Leandro, Francisco José B.S.
A2 - Galán, Enrique Martínez
PB - Springer Nature
ER -