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167327
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As the two most significant Asian powers, competition in infrastructure sectors in Asia between China and Japan is inevitable. Japan is a long-established developer of regional infrastructure in Southeast Asia, while China’s interest in financing and building infrastructures there is relatively recent. After China proposed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Japan stepped up its efforts, determined to expand its already well-established influence. This competition has had positive as well as negative consequences for Southeast Asia and regional financial architecture. This article attempts to use Sino–Japanese competition for infrastructure financing and high-speed railway contracts as a case in point to explore in what ways and trajectory these two countries’ competition for infrastructure investment is going on, and what impacts it will create on the region.
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125001
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2013.
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The author looks in close-up at the reciprocal effect of economic and political factors that encouraged China to intensify its maritime activities. He examines trends in the principal industries of China's maritime economy (ports, sea transportation, shipbuilding, fisheries and aquaculture, and offshore oil and gas production). He retraces the development of territorial disputes at sea in which China is involved, and shows that the sea is turning into a major area of conflict between competing Chinese and American interests.
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ID:
166583
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New Delhi, KW Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2016.
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Description |
ix, 202p.: table, figureshbk
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9789383649709
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
059681 | 327.53/KUM 059681 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
122345
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2013.
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We do not live in an abstract civil society, but in specific economic, legal, cultural, and ideological conditions, with the state as the foundation. When the state falls apart, chaos follows, however briefly. Any chaos is worse than state order, except for rare cases when the government carries out genocide against its own people.
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174876
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Donald Trump’s presidency steered U.S.-China relations into a phase of open rivalry for global domination. The U.S. has failed to sidestep the risk of confrontation with China that Graham Allison warned of with his “Thucydides trap” metaphor. The two countries’ strongest trading and economic interdependence has proven unable to prevent a political standoff between Washington and Beijing. Their competition in science and engineering may result in the emergence of two technoeconomic platforms other countries will have to choose between. At the same time, the new U.S.-Chinese bipolarity is far more complex and internally controversial, which is a reason enough to postulate the existence of a “double Thucydides trap.” Importantly, global development is being greatly influenced by the interaction within the U.S.-China-Russia triangle.
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133158
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2014.
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Ethiopia surprised northeastern Africa in 2011 by announcing its plan to construct the first hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile. With an annual production capacity of 6,000 megawatts, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is set to become the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa. Expected to be completed by 2015, the dam will not only break Egypt's millennia-long monopoly over the Nile waters, but will also, according to Cairo, threaten its water supply. The Nile is Egypt's only major source of freshwater and has served as the lifeline of the nation since the dawn of its civilization.
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ID:
143052
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Since its political independent existence 1747, Afghanistan had been useful for the great empires for sustaining the balance of power. The geopolitical rivalry between British India and Tsarist Russia from the last century (1880-1901) to date had complicated the security situation in Afghanistan. It was not the issue of sovereignty rather it was security concerns of British India and Russia that determined Afghanistan as a state.
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ID:
145368
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The protracted unresolved border dispute between India and China has transformed the subcontinent into a locus of sustained geopolitical rivalry. The total disputed area between the two countries runs to approximately 1,35,000 sq. km. and in the absence of a well-demarcated border, a Line of Actual Control is employed by both sides to claim the area up to which each side has effective military control. Except the limited but intense war in 1962 and the direct military confrontation in 1986-87, major escalated conflicts along the border have been prevented by adept diplomatic measures and understanding between the two sides. The trajectory of conflict resolution and peace management along the Sino-India border forms a significant foreign policy discourse and the manner in which a mutually acceptable permanent solution to the dispute is reached would be of great interest and concern not only for the region, but also the international community at large.
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ID:
132916
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2014.
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President Obama has continued to emphasise the strategic importance of stable energy supplies to US national security interests, with the oil-rich Central Asian region a key part of global energy markets. This region has seen significant economic and strategic inroads by the United States over the last decade in a broad attempt to integrate it within the US-led liberal order. This article examines these policy developments and draws upon theoretical debates on US grand strategy to argue that, rather than necessarily signalling increasing geopolitical rivalry with other powers such as China and Russia, US policy is designed primarily to incorporate the region through deepening market interdependence. As such, while there is a complex mix of geopolitical rivalry and economic interdependence developing in the Caspian, even in the face of purported US decline and increase of its domestic supplies through fracking, Washington remains committed to acting as a hegemonic stabiliser in the Caspian.
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