02559nam 22004453a 450 991034688480332120230124202058.097888670593008867059300https://doi.org/10.14672/67059287(CKB)4920000000101674(ScCtBLL)7f275ee5-1b67-46cb-a0ec-f9fd07745b2e(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/48498(EXLCZ)99492000000010167420211214i20192019 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGeopolitics by other meansAxel Berkofsky, Sergio MiracolaLedizioni2019Milan :Ledizioni,2019.1 online resource (1 p.)Pubblicazioni ISPI9788867059287 8867059289 The Asia-Pacific has become the Indo-Pacific region as the US, Japan, Australia and India have decided to join forces and scale-up their political, economic and security cooperation. The message coming from Washington, Tokyo, Canberra and New Delhi is clear: China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is no longer the only game in town and Beijing's policymakers better get ready for fierce competition. Japan's ongoing and future "quality infrastructure" policies and investments in the Indo-Pacific in particular make it very clear that Tokyo wants a (much) bigger slice of the pie of infrastructure investments in the region. China's territorial expansionism in the South China Sea and its increasing interests and presence in countries in South Asia have done their share to help the four aforesaid countries expand their security and defence ties. Beijing, of course, smells containment in all of this and it probably has a point. Who will have the upper hand in shaping and defining Asian security and providing developing South and Southeast Asia with badly-needed infrastructure: the US and Japan together with its allies or the increasingly assertive and uncompromising China and its Belt and Road Initiative?Political Science / International RelationsbisacshPolitical sciencePolitical Science / International RelationsPolitical scienceBerkofsky Axel524719Miracola SergioScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910346884803321Geopolitics by other means2565930UNINA