South Asia in Global Power Rivalry: Inside-out Appraisals from Bangladesh

Imtiaz Hussain (Curatore)

Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2020

This edited volume examines global power-rivalry in and around South Asia through Bangladeshi lenses using imperfect and overlapping interest concentric-circles as a template. Dynamics from three transitions —the United States exiting the Cold War, China emerging as a global-level power, and India’s eastern interests squaring off with China’s Belt Road Initiative, BRI—help place China, India, and the United States (in alphabetical order) in Bangladesh’s “inner-most” circle, China, India, and the United States in a “mid-stream” circle, and the United States and Latin America, among other countries, in the “outer-most” circle, depending on the issue. In an atmosphere of short-term gains over-riding long-term considerations, the desperate, widespread search for infrastructural funding inside South Asia enhances China’s value, raises local heat, releases new challenges, with costly default consequences looming, issue-specific analysis overtaking formal bilateral relations and a stubborn uncertainty riddling the Bangladeshi air as its policy preferences stubbornly show more certainty.

• Curatore: Imtiaz Hussain
• Editore: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Collana: Global Political Transitions
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 320 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9789811372421

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