China and the Islamic world : how the new Silk Road is transforming global politics / Robert R. Bianchi.
Bianchi, Robert, 1945- author.
2019
DS63.2.C5 B53 2019eb
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Title China and the Islamic world : how the new Silk Road is transforming global politics / Robert R. Bianchi.
Author Bianchi, Robert, 1945- author.
ISBN 9780190915292 (electronic book)
0190915293 (electronic book)
9780190915308 (electronic book)
9780190915285
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number DS63.2.C5 B53 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.51017/67
Summary " China is building a New Silk Road that runs through the heartland of the Muslim world, promising it will create integrated economies and stronger ties across Eurasia and Africa. Robert R. Bianchi argues that while China has the financial and technical resources to accomplish its infrastructure goals, it is woefully unprepared to deal with the social and political demands of its partner countries' citizens. China and the Islamic World explores how China's leaders and citizens are learning-through their relationships with Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria and Egypt-that they have to respect and adjust to the aspirations of ordinary people throughout the Islamic world, not just cater to the narrow band of government and business elites. Bianchi demonstrates that turbulent countries along the New Silk Road are likely to transform Chinese society at least as much as China changes them. This realization will be deeply unsettling for China's authoritarian rulers, who desperately want to monopolize power domestically. The party and state bosses have responded to challenges with a contradictory blend of flexibility abroad and rigidity at home, compromising with popular demands in one country after another while refusing to negotiate many of the same issues with their own citizens. This book shows how China faces a growing struggle to maintain their double-sided statecraft as it becomes apparent that the New Silk Road is not a one way street. "-- Provided by publisher.
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What is new about the new Silk Road?
Megaregions and coevolution in world politics
Pakistan: deep democracy and shallow strategy
Turkey: competing partner
Indonesia: inherent weakness and increasing leverage
Iran: the great divider
Nigeria: a shaky bridge
Egypt: weighing the tolls
Islam and the opening of the Chinese mind
Learning abroad, evading at home
The bitter and the sweet.

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