Overview
- Considers if South Asia in a global power rivalry game
- Introduces three concentric-circles as a framework to assess countries; “inner-most”, “mid-stream”, and “outer-most”
- Goes beyond economics into social, political, or security dynamics, accordingly moving beyond state-centric interpretations to include non-governmental forces
Part of the book series: Global Political Transitions (GLPOTR)
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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.
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.
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Keywords
- “Shining” versus “suffering” South Asian contest
- Gordon Knot in the Himalayas
- A third Asian-Latin embrace
- Heartland thesis goes south
- Belt Road Initiative meets India’s Look/Act East policy
- Infrastructure-building with Rohingya genocide consequences
- The realism-liberalism tussle in Asia
- U.S. Pivot Asia
- 21st Century “third” Asia-Latin embrace
- Off-shore ready-made-garment (RMG) production
- String of Indian Pearls
- Post-non-alignment India
- Encircling India
- BANGLADESH & THE CHANGING GLOBAL RIVALRY
- BANGLADESH-INDIA RELATIONS
- CHINA’S SOUTH ASIAN FOOTPRINTS
- ROHINGYA
- CHINA’S & INDIA’S LATIN ENTRY
- ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, & GLOBALIZATION
- SOUTH ASIA IN STRATEGIC COMPETITION
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Imtiaz Hussain is the Head of Global Studies & Governance, at Independent University, Bangladesh. Previously Professor of International Relations (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, 1995-2013) and International Political Economy (Philadelphia University, 1990-94), his publications include: Transatlantic Transitions: Back to a Global Future? (2018), North American Regionalism and Global Spread (2015); Evaluating NAFTA: Theory and Practice (2013); Border Governance and the ‘Unruly’ South (2013), North America’s Soft Security Threat (2013), Afghanistan-Iraq and Post-conflict Governance (2010), The Impact of NAFTA on North America (2010), North American Homeland Security (2008); Running on Empty Across Central America (2006), and Globalization, Indigenous Groups, and Mexico’s Plan Puebla Plan (2006); and articles in Handbook of Global Security and Intelligence (2008), South Asian Survey(2008), Politics & Policy (2008), Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (2006), Norteamérica (2006), among others. A recipient of over 12 international fellowships and 8 teaching awards, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: South Asia in Global Power Rivalry
Book Subtitle: Inside-out Appraisals from Bangladesh
Editors: Imtiaz Hussain
Series Title: Global Political Transitions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7240-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7239-1Published: 19 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7242-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7240-7Published: 07 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2522-8730
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8749
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Political Economy, International Economics, Trade, Globalization, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Asian Politics