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China and India in Central Asia

A New "Great Game"?

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Editors:
  1. Marlène Laruelle

    1. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, USA

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  2. Jean-François Huchet

    1. French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC), Hong Kong, China

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  3. Sébastien Peyrouse

    1. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, USA

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  4. Bayram Balci

    1. French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Kyrgyzstan

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Why Central Asia? The Strategic Rationale of Indian and Chinese Involvement in the Region

    1. Why Central Asia? The Strategic Rationale of Indian and Chinese Involvement in the Region

      • Marlène Laruelle, Jean-François Huchet, Sébastien Peyrouse, Bayram Balci
      Pages 1-6

  4. India and China in Central Asia, between Cooperation, Parallelism, and Competition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. India and China in Central Asia: Mirroring Their Bilateral Relations

      • Jean-FranÇois Huchet
      Pages 97-115

    3. India-China Interactions in Central Asia through the Prism of Paul Kennedy’s Analysis of Great Powers

      • Basudeb Chaudhuri, Manpreet Sethi
      Pages 117-130

    4. Cooperation or Competition? China and India in Central Asia

      • Zhao Huasheng
      Pages 131-138

  5. Chinese and Indian Economic Implementations from the Caspian Basin to Afghanistan

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Scramble for Caspian Energy: Can Big Power Competition Sidestep China and India?

      • P. L. Dash
      Pages 141-153

    3. Comparing the Economic Involvement of China and India in Post-Soviet Central Asia

      • SÉbastien Peyrouse
      Pages 155-172

    4. The Reconstruction in Afghanistan: The Indian and Chinese Contribution

      • Gulshan Sachdeva
      Pages 173-194
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This book looks at how China and India's growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russia-U.S. 'Great Game' at the heart of the old continent. In the years to come, both Asian powers are looking to redeploy their rivalry on the Central Asian and Afghan theatres on a geopolitical, but also political and economic level.

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"Marlène Laruelle and Jean-François Huchet have assembled a talented group of scholars from Europe, India, China, and Australia to assess the neglected Sino-Indian dimension of Central Asia's twenty-first century 'Great Game.' These insightful essays are a valuable addition to our understanding of great-power politics in this complex and vital region and will be of interest to specialists and general readers alike." - Charles E. Ziegler, Professor and University Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Louisville, USA

"China and India in Central Asia is a timely book which deals with one of the regions of the world where our future is being written. Two Asian giants in urgent need of natural resources to sustain their growth are bordering Central Asian countries which are among the richest area for minerals, oil and gas. But Central Asia is also at the heart of the new 'Great game' because of the Afghan war and the spread of Islamism, two causes of concern for Beijing and New Delhi. Will they cooperate to build a better world? Will they fight? The book sets the terms of analysis." - Christophe Jaffrelot, CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, France

"The volume contributes to the growing literature on Central Asia by focusing on a rather neglected dimension, the regional implications of China-India interactions. It approaches the problem of China-India relations from a wide range of regional and disciplinary perspectives and the volume involves a diverse group of scholars from Central Asia, China, India, and Europe." - Elizabeth Wishnick, Associate Professor of Political Science, Montclair State University and Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, USA

    Marlène Laruelle, Sébastien Peyrouse

  • French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC), Hong Kong, China

    Jean-François Huchet

  • French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Kyrgyzstan

    Bayram Balci

About the editors

M. Laruelle J.François Huchet S. Peyrouse B. Balci J.P. Cabestan E. Kavalski M. Singh Roy S. Singh B. Chaudhuri M. Sethi Z. Huasheng P.L. Dash G. Sachdeva L. Gayer R. Castets

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