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World news headlines routinely proclaim China's status as a great power. But when it comes to explaining how new Chinese efforts to exercise global leadership, like the vaunted "Belt and Road Initiative," are likely to affect regional politics or play into the competition between the United States and China, sophisticated answers can be hard to find. In
China's Western Horizon, scholar and former U.S. State Department policy planner, Daniel S. Markey, draws from extensive interviews, travels, and historical research to assess what China is doing, to explain how states along the historic Silk Road that once knitted Eurasia together are turning Chinese initiatives to their own purposes, and to offer thoughtful recommendations for U.S. policymakers.
List of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Map: Chinas Western Horizon
- 1. China and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
- 2. Beijings Global Aspirations
- 3. South Asian Conflicts
- 4. Central Asian Insecurities
- 5. Middle Eastern Entanglements
- 6. US-China Competition in Eurasia
- Notes
- Index
About the author
Daniel S. Markey is a senior research professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and the academic director of the SAIS Global Policy Program. From 2007-2015, he was senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. While there, he wrote a book on the future of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship,
No Exit from Pakistan. From 2003 to 2007, Dr. Markey held the South Asia portfolio on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State.
