China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia A Political Economic Analysis of its Purposes, Perils, and Promise /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Blanchard, Jean-Marc F. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Asia-Pacific Political Economy
• Subjects: Asia-Politics and government.; Asia-Economic conditions.; International business enterprises.; Asian Politics.; Asian Economics.; Asian Business.

This book brings together a diverse range of responses to China's Marine Silk Road Initiative, which proposes to redraw the map of Asia, particularly South Asia. China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) is a massive scheme to connect wide swaths of East, Southeast, South,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia: Political and Economic Contours, Challenges, and Conundrum
• 2. China's Rise and the Eurasian Transportation Revolution
• 3. The MSRI and the Evolving Naval Balance in the Indian Ocean
• 4. China's Strategy towards South Asia in the Context of the Maritime Silk Road Initiative
• 5. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the China-India-Pakistan Triangle
• 6. Sri Lanka, the Maritime Silk Road, and Sino-Indian Relations
• 7. The Maritime Silk Road and China-Maldives Relations
• 8. The MSRI, China, and India: Economic Perspectives and Political Impressions.