Rethinking China, the Middle East and Asia in a 'Multiplex World'

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-39160-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 128, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

The contemporary Sino-MENA-Asia relations and the Belt and Road Initiative are in the making in an emerging 'multiplex world'. This edited volume includes new researches in fifteen chapters, examining China’s complex relations with Iran, Turkey, Egypt, GCC, Pakistan, central and south Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahdavi, Mojtaba

Keskin, Tugrul

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Belt and Road: China’s Opportunities and Challenges

Manochehr Dorraj

Introduction

Mojtaba Mahdavi and Tugrul Keskin

Part I: China–MENA Relations at Large

Chapter 1: The Triple Pillar of Sino–MENA Relations in the Age of Neoliberalism

Mojtaba Mahdavi

Chapter 2:China’s Mental Maps of the Middle East and North Africa: Critical Discourse Analysis of the Contemporary PRC Leadership’s Geopolitical Images

Jordi Quero

Part II: The Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges and Opportunities

Chapter 3: Is Growing the Iran–China Relationship as Easy as Building a Belt and Road?

Dara Conduit

Chapter 4: The Belt and Road Initiative: Central Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia

Mahesh Ranjan Debata

Chapter 5: The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor: Building National Consensus, Curbing Terrorism, and Managing Regional Rivalries in Balochistan

Saeed Shafqat

Part III: China’s Soft Power and Hard Power in the MENA Region

Chapter 6: Confucius in the UAE: Chinese Soft Power in the GCC

Habibul Haque Khondker

Chapter 7: China–Egypt Relations: Constructing Images and Perceptions in the Belt and Road Initiative

Xiaoyue Li

Chapter 8: Smoothing the Waters: Science and Research Collaboration between China and the Arab World

Sari Hanafi and Rigas Arvanitis

Chapter 9: China and the MENA Region in a Decentred World

Andrea Ghiselli

Part IV: Sino–MENA Regional Dynamics: Energy and Beyond

Chapter 10: Sino–Turkish Relations in the New Era: From Political Conflict to Economic Cooperation

Michael McCall and Tugrul Keskin

Chapter 11: Sino–Egyptian Relations and the New Regional Dynamics of the Middle East

Yossra M. Taha

Chapter 12: China’s Policy on the Iranian Nuclear Issue: Cooperation and Disagreements with Russia and the United States

Mher D. Sahakyan

Chapter 13: Chinese Engagement with the MENA Region: Exploring Sino–MENA Event Data

Michael McCall

Über Autor(innen)

Mojtaba Mahdavi, Ph.D. (2006), Western University, is Professor of Political Science and the ECMC Chair in Islamic Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of numerous works on MENA and Muslim politics, and the editor of The Myth of ‘Middle East Exceptionalism’: Unfinished MENA Social Movements (Syracuse University Press, 2022).

Tugrul Keskin, Ph.D. (2009), Virginia Tech, teaches at Cappadocia University in Turkey. He has held the position of Professor of Global Studies and the director of the Center for Global Governance and Political Economy at Shanghai University. He is the editor of Middle East Studies after September 11 Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia (Brill, 2018).