China and India in Central Asia A New "Great Game"?

by Laruelle, Marlène; Peyrouse, Sébastien; Huchet, Jean-François; Balci, Bayram

• ISBN13: 9780230103566
• ISBN10: 0230103561
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

China and India growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russian-U.S. "Great Game" at the heart of the old continent. Though for the moment India is unable to equally compete against the Chinese presence in post-Soviet Central Asia, New Delhi is well established in Afghanistan and has begun to cast its eyes more markedly toward the north to the shores of the Caspian Sea. In the years to come, both Asian powers are looking to redeploy their rivalry on the Central Asian and Afghan theaters on a geopolitical, but also political and economic level.

Author Biography

Marlène Laruelle is Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. In Paris, she is Associate Scholar at the French Center for Russian, Caucasian and East European Studies at the School of Advanced Social Sciences Studies (EHESS) and at the Post-Soviet Studies Department at Sciences Po. Her English-language publications include Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (2008); In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia (2009); and the edited volume Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia (2009).

Jean-François Huchet is currently Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) in Hong Kong, editor of the review journal China Perspectives (and its French edition, Perspectives Chinoises), and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Rennes 2 in France. He has edited recently, with Wang Wei, Chinese Firms in the Era of Globalisation (in Chinese and English, 2008) and with Joël Ruet & Xavier Richet, Globalisation of firms in China, India and Russia (2007).

Sébastien Peyrouse is Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. He was a doctoral and postdoctoral Fellow at the French Institute for Central Asia Studies in Tashkent (1998-2000 and 2002-2005), a Research Fellow at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University in Sapporo (2006), and a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington (2006-2007). In English, he has published with Marlène Laruelle China as a Neighbor: Central Asian Perspectives and Strategies (2009) and The Economic Aspects of the Chinese-Central-Asia Rapprochement (2007).

Bayram Balci has been Director of the French Institute for Central Asian Studies since 2006. Between 2001 and 2006 he was a Researcher and coordinator of the Caucasus Program based in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the French Institute on Anatolian Studies. He has published Missionnaires de l’Islam en Asie centrale, les écoles turques de Fethullah Gülen [Islamic Missionaries in Central Asia : the Turkish schools of Fethullah Gülen], and edited the volume Religion, Société et politique dans le Caucase post-soviétique [Religion, Society and politics in the post-Soviet Caucasus].

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Why Central Asia? The Strategic Rationale of Indian and Chinese Involvement in the Region The Editors	p. 1
Negotiating Projections of Power in Central Asia
Russia Facing China and India in Central Asia: Cooperation, Competition, and Hesitations	p. 9
Central Asia-China Relations and Their Relative Weight in Chinese Foreign Policy	p. 25
An Elephant in a China Shop? India's Look North to Central Asia...Seeing Only China	p. 41
Afghanistan and Regional Strategy: The India Factor	p. 61
Afghan Factor in Reviving the Sino-Pak Axis	p. 81
India and China in Central Asia, between Cooperation, Parallelism, and Competition
India and China in Central Asia: Mirroring Their Bilateral Relations	p. 97
India-China Interactions in Central Asia through the Prism of Paul Kennedy's Analysis of Great Powers	p. 117
Cooperation or Competition? China and India in Central Asia	p. 131
Chinese and Indian Economic Implementations from the Caspian Basin to Afghanistan
Scramble for Caspian Energy: Can Big Power Competition Sidestep China and India?	p. 141
Comparing the Economic Involvement of China and India in Post-Soviet Central Asia	p. 155
The Reconstruction in Afghanistan: The Indian and Chinese Contribution	p. 173
Revisited Historical Backgrounds, Disputed Religious Modernities
From the Oxus to the Indus: Looking Back at India-Central Asia Connections in the Early Modern Age	p. 197
Uyghur Islam: Caught between Foreign Influences and Domestic Constraints	p. 215
The Jama'at al Tabligh in Central Asia-a Mediator in the Recreation of Islamic Relations with the Indian Subcontinet	p. 235
Index	p. 249
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