ABOUT THE BOOK
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The centrality of China in the contemporary political,
strategic and economic discourse mandates a critical analysis of its future
engagements with the international community. Its rising economic power, potent
political influence, growing military arsenal and nuclear capability has the
potential to shape the international discourse, thus challenging the global
primacy of the United States. This volume captures the above dynamics through
scholarly pieces authored by well-established China watchers. Under discussion
are issues such as China`s strategic culture, the Belt Road Initiative,
military modernisation, and its relations with South Asian countries. This
volume is a must read for academics, policymakers and researchers who pursue
various facets of Asia’s political, economic and security landscape.
ABOUT Author
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Dr
Vijay Sakhuja is Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow, Gujarat National Law
University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, and Visiting Fellow, Institute of Defence and
Strategic Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore.
Prior to holding the current positions, Dr Sakhuja
served as the Director, National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi a think tank of
the Indian Ministry of Defence. He has also been on the research faculty of
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore; Director (Research),
Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA); Senior Fellow, Centre for Airpower
Studies (CAPS) and Observer Research Foundation (ORF); Research Fellow at the
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), and United Service
Institution of India (USI).
A former Indian Navy officer, Dr Vijay Sakhuja received
his MPhil and PhD degrees from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He
has published nearly 40 books, edited volumes and monograph on international
relations, geopolitics, maritime security, maritime history, the Arctic and
Blue Economy. His recent academic works are Asia and the Arctic: Narratives,
Perspectives and Policies (2016), Perspectives on Blue Economy (2017); The Blue
Economy: Concept, Constituents and Development (2017).
Dr Vijay Sakhuja is member of the international
editorial board of Journal of Indian Ocean Region (Taylor & Francis).