China and India in Central Asia
Subtitle: A new "great game"?
By: Edited by Bayram Balci [et al.].
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] ;
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780230114357; 9781282993211
Subjects: Politics and Government; Comparative politics; Political ideologies; International relations; Political science & theory
Other titles: Palgrave Connect. Political and International Studies collections.
Description: This book looks at how China and India's growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russia-U.S. 'Great Game' at the heart of the old continent. In the years to come, both Asian powers are looking to redeploy their rivalry on the Central Asian and Afghan theatres on a geopolitical, but also political and economic level.

"Marlene Laruelle and Jean-Francois Huchet have assembled a talented group of scholars from Europe, India, China, and Australia to assess the neglected Sino-Indian dimension of Central Asia's twenty-first century 'Great Game.' These insightful essays are a valuable addition to our understanding of great-power politics in this complex and vital region and will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike." - Charles E. Ziegler, Professor and University Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Louisville "China and India in Central Asia is a timely book which deals with one of the regions of the world where our future is being written. Two Asian giants in urgent need of natural resources to sustain their growth are bordering Central Asian countries which are among the richest area for minerals, oil and gas. But Central Asia is also at the heart of the new 'Great game' because of the Afghan war and the spread of Islamism, two causes of concern for Beijing and New Delhi. Will they cooperate to build a better world? Will they fight? The book sets the terms of analysis." - Christophe Jaffrelot "The volume contributes to the growing literature on Central Asia by focusing on a rather neglected dimension, the regional implications of China-India interactions. It approaches the problem of China-India relations from a wide range of regional and disciplinary perspectives and the volume involves a diverse group of scholars from Central Asia, China, India, and Europe." - Elizabeth Wishnick, Associate Professor of Political Science, Montclair State University and Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Notes: Epublication based on: 9780230103566, 2010.

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MARLAeNE LARUELLE Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Centre affiliated with Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C., USA and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, Sweden. SAeBASTIEN PEYROUSE Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Centre affiliated with Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C., USA and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, Sweden. JEAN-FRANAaOIS HUCHET Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) in Hong Kong. BAYRAM BALCI has been Director of the French Institute for Central Asian Studies since 2006.
Table of contents: title: Why Central Asia? The Strategic Rationale of Indian and Chinese Involvement in the region; title: Marlene Laruelle, Jean-Francois Huchet, Sebastien Peyrouse, and Bayram Balci * Part I. negotiating projections of power in Central Asia * Russia facing China and India in Central Asia: Cooperation, Competition, and Hesitations; title: Marlene Laruelle * Central Asia-China Relations and Their Relative Weight in Chinese Foreign Policy; title: Jean-Pierre Cabestan * An Elephant in a China Shop? India's 'Look North' to Central Asia ... Seeing Only China; title: Emilian Kavalski * Afghanistan and Regional Strategy: The India Factor; title: Meena Singh Roy * Afghan Factor in Reviving Sino-Pak Axis; title: Swaran Singh * Part II. India and China in Central Asia, between cooperation, parallelism, and competition * India and China in Central Asia: Mirroring their Bilateral Relations; title: Jean-Francois Huchet * India; title: China Interactions in Central Asia through the Prism of Paul Kennedy's Analysis of Great Powers; title: Basudeb Chaudhuri, Manpreet Sethi * Cooperation or Competition? China and India in Central Asia; title: Zhao Huasheng * Part III. Chinese and Indian economic implementations from the Caspian basin to Afghanistan * Scramble for Caspian Energy: can Big Power Competition sidestep China and India?; title: Padma L. Dash * Comparing the Economic Involvement of China and India in post-Soviet Central Asia; title: Sebastien Peyrouse * The Reconstruction Issue in Afghanistan. The Indian and Chinese Contribution; title: Gulshan Sachdeva * Part IV. Revisited historical backgrounds, disputed religious modernities * From The Oxus to the Indus: Looking Back at India-Central Asia Connexions in the Early Modern Age; title: Laurent Gayer * Uyghur Islam: Caught between Foreign Influences and Domestic Constraints; title: Remi Castets * The Jama'at al Tabligh in Central Asia. A Mediator in the Recreation of Islamic Relations with the Indian Subcontinent; title: Bayram Balci.