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  title info:
    title: China's Private Army
    sub title: Protecting the New Silk Road
  name:
    name part: Arduino, Alessandro.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 176 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book illustrates the role that Private Security Companies (PSC) with 'Chinese characteristics' play in protecting people and property associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The revival of the ancient Silk Road economic "belt," combined with the 21st Century sea lanes of communication known as the "road," is intended to enhance global connectivity and increase commercial activity. However, the socio-political risks associated with Chinese outbound direct investments are often overlooked. Terrorism, separatism, kidnapping and other risks are mostly new to Chinese companies, some of which are operating abroad for the first time. Economic globalization and the transnational exploitation of natural resources have increased the need for Chinese-owned PSCs in spite of the disdain for the profession of "a lance for hire." Due to peculiar geo-strategic and geo-economic features, the "belt" from Central Asia to Pakistan and the "road" from the Somali coast to the Strait of Malacca are characterized by a high level of insecurity. This book's focus on how the state's monopoly of force privatization can play a significant role in protecting the New Silk Road will be of interest to policymakers, journalists, and academics.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Protecting the New Silk Road -- Chapter 2: From Shadow to Hype -- Chapter 3: Protecting Chinese Overseas Interests -- Chapter 4: Globalization and the Market of Force -- Chapter 5: Conclusion.
  note: by Alessandro Arduino.
  subject:
    topic: Politics and war
  subject:
    topic: Asia-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Asia-Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Military and Defence Studies
  subject:
    topic: Asian Politics
  subject:
    topic: Asian Economics
  classification: JZ6378-6405
  classification: 355
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789811072154
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7215-4
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    record creation date: 171215
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