Tiger with Wings

China's BRI and Economic Engagement in South Asia
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-33199-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This book comprehensively examines China's transformative economic engagement across South Asia within the Belt and Road Initiative framework. Its analysis provides granular evaluation of massive infrastructure projects including ports, railways, airports, digital networks, and energy developments while assessing their impact on regional geopolitics and domestic economies, and also includes:

- Comprehensive examination of China's transformative economic engagement across South Asian nations under BRI framework

- Granular analysis of massive infrastructure projects including ports, railways, airports, digital networks, and energy developments

- Critical evaluation of geopolitics-geoeconomics interface and its impact on regional power balance

- Assessment of Chinese engagement effects on domestic politics and economies of South Asian countries

- Mapping of continuities and discontinuities in China's evolving relationships across the subcontinent

This title has been co-published with Knowledge World Publishers. T&F does not sell or distribute the print versions in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri lanka.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pulipaka, Sanjay

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: China's External Economic Engagement—An Overview

- The BRI: Tiger with Wings

- Intimate Souls in a Transactional Relationship

- In Search of Profit Amidst Peril

- China and the Emerald Island: Navigating Turbulence

- The Disquiet in the Archipelago

- The Himalayan Ambitions

- From Inauspicious Beginnings to a Calibrated Engagement

- Cooperation with Suspicion

- Reaping Benefits without Friendship

- Conclusion: Asymmetry and Geopolitics

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sanjay Pulipaka is Chairperson of the Politeia Research Foundation, India. He was previously a Senior Fellow for Research Programmes and Strategic Neighbourhood at the Delhi Policy Group, India, a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India, and a Senior Consultant at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India. Pulipaka was also a Pavate Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and a former Fulbright Fellow in the Conflict Transformation Programme in the United States. He has extensive work experience with think-tanks and civil society organisations in India. He also holds considerable experience in strengthening participatory political processes, governance frameworks and platforms for wider consultation.