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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Emadi Hafizullah"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The Dragon’s Reach: China’s Rise as an Imperial Power in the Middle East / / by Hafizullah Emadi"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2026"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"3-032-06038-9"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed. 2026.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (250 pages)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Political Science and International Studies"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"327.51056"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"International relations"]
[{"$nulls":4},"International economic relations"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Security, International"]
[{"$nulls":4},"International Relations Theory"]
[{"$nulls":4},"International Political Economy’"]
[{"$nulls":4},"International Security Studies"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Chapter 1: China’s Evolving Middle East Diplomacy -- Chapter 2: China-Afghanistan Diplomatic Relations -- Chapter 3: China-Iran Diplomatic Relations -- Chapter 4: China-Iraq Diplomatic Relations -- Chapter 5: China-Palestinian Diplomatic Relations -- Chapter 6: Conclusion."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This book provides an in-depth examination of China’s diplomatic endeavors in the Middle East, tracing the evolution of its approach since the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Through a rigorous textual analysis of published literature from Chinese government sources, as well as Western research institutions and academia, this study reveals a significant thesis: China has strategically employed a soft power approach to reposition itself as a rising imperial power, directly challenging the long-standing dominance of the United States in the Middle East. Hafizullah Emadi is a scholar and consultant writing on institutional and political development in the Middle East and Central Asia. Emadi taught at the University of Hawaii system, was a fellow at the East-West Center, International Research and Exchange, IREX and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Afghanistan Journal, Academy of Sciences in Kabul, Afghanistan."]