Reconfiguring the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Geo-Economic Pipe Dreams Versus Geopolitical Realities

ISBN-13: 9780367863210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 128 str.

Jeremy Garlick

Opis

This book examines if the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor's primary purpose is as an overland conduit for trade and economic cooperation between China and Pakistan, while positing that aims related to geopolitics and energy security are, in reality, more significant.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Higher than the Himalayas, deeper than the ocean? 2. Deconstructing established CPEC narratives 3. Economic considerations: image versus reality 4. A pipeline too far? Logistics, mountains, and the ‘Malacca dilemma’ 5. CPEC’s hidden face: geopolitics and security 6. CPEC reconfigured: learning lessons from Pakistan’s ‘game changer’. Appendix 1

O autorze

Jeremy Garlick, PhD, is an associate professor at Prague University of Economics and Business and the director of the Jan Masaryk Centre of International Studies, a research centre within the university. He specialises in China’s international relations, focusing primarily on the progress and regional implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). His first book, The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Asia to Europe, was published by Routledge in 2020. In addition to publications on EU-China relations, he has also published numerous articles on a diverse range of topics related to the BRI, including China’s economic diplomacy and regionalising foreign policy. These publications include papers on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), China’s economic diplomacy in the Czech Republic, China’s strategic hedging in the Persian Gulf, China’s normative power drive in Central Asia, and China’s relations with India. Dr Garlick has taught and lectured for two decades at institutes of higher education in Asia and Europe, including the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in Beijing and Ewha Womans University in Seoul.