Creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a part of China’s smart power strategy
Özet
The aim of this article is to assess the creation of the China-led Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank within the scope of China’s smart power strategy, which will help not only to analyze China’s strategic use of its coercive
and co-optive capacity, but also to understand better the concept of smart
power. Given that the wisdom of statecraft can only be situationally determined, through this study I will propose the ability to achieve targeted objectives, the skill to use hard and soft power instruments in such a way that
they reinforce each other, good interpretation of the existing regional and
global contexts, time planning, and compatibility with long-term interests as
criteria for judging the effectiveness of a smart power implementation.
