| Résumé: | Based on a constructivist theoretical approach, it is suggested that our mental models shaped by classical approaches to geopolitics are limited in understanding China's growing role in the world because they need to consider that the interests of countries in the international arena are a social construction. With the aim of showing how the actors on the global stage define their interests, the Belt and Road initiative is analyzed, suggesting that it represents a financing and development aid model that complments traditional approaches. As constructivism suggests, this fact results from the interaction between the identities, norms, and interests present in the actors on the international stage.
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