LEADER 03283nam 22005775 450 001 9910407723203321 005 20230810230707.0 010 $a9789811547089 010 $a9811547084 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-15-4708-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011280844 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6221632 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-15-4708-9 035 $a(PPN)259454583 035 $a(Perlego)3481165 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011280844 100 $a20200605d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Prequel to China's New Silk Road $ePreparing the Ground in Central Asia /$fby Tilman Pradt 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 126 pages) 311 08$a9789811547072 311 08$a9811547076 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. The Setting: geopolitical situation in the 1990s and 2000s -- 3. Introduction to Shanghai Five (SCO) -- 4. Territorial Disputes in Central Asia -- 5. Progress of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) -- 6. Economic Cooperation among SCO Members -- 7. Security Cooperation among SCO Members -- 8. Key Players in the Belt and Road Initiative -- 9. Status Quo of BRI & Outlook. 330 $aThis book offers the prequel to China's successful implementation of its New Silk Road, the so-called Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The preconditions for the establishment of especially the land route between China and Western Europe have been set decades ago in Central Asia. In the political, security, and economic realms, China had to find arrangements with Russia as well as the Central Asian states. Border disputes had to be resolved, a security architecture and political cooperation was lacking. The key to BRI's success today lies in China's successful diplomacy of the 1990s and 2000s. This book tells the exciting story behind the largest geopolitical infrastructure project of our time. Tilman Pradt is a geopolitical analyst and consultant based in Berlin. His research focus is on China's foreign policy. He is a supervisor and contributing analyst at the geostrategic analysis and business consultancy, Wikistrat, and works as a senior advisor for companies and business associations. He writes for various international publications and his book, China's New Foreign Policy, was published in 2016. 606 $aAsia$xPolitics and government 606 $aAsia$xEconomic conditions 606 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 606 $aAsian Politics 606 $aAsian Economics 606 $aEuropean Politics 615 0$aAsia$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aAsia$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aEurope$xPolitics and government. 615 14$aAsian Politics. 615 24$aAsian Economics. 615 24$aEuropean Politics. 676 $a382.30951 700 $aPradt$b Tilman$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0788538 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910407723203321 996 $aThe Prequel to China's New Silk Road$91999243 997 $aUNINA