Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration Contributor(s): Calder, Kent E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1503608158 ISBN-13: 9781503608153 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Business & Economics | International - Economics |
Dewey: 337.5 |
LCCN: 2018038995 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9" (1.45 lbs) 344 pages |
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Publisher Description: A Eurasian transformation is underway, and it flows from China. With a geopolitically central location, the country's domestic and international policies are poised to change the face of global affairs. The Belt and Road Initiative has called attention to a deepening Eurasian continentalism that has, argues Kent Calder, much more significant implications than have yet been recognized. In Super Continent, Calder presents a theoretically guided and empirically grounded explanation for these changes. He shows that key inflection points, beginning with the Four Modernizations and the collapse of the Soviet Union; and culminating in China's response to the Global Financial Crisis and Crimea's annexation, are triggering tectonic shifts. Furthermore, understanding China's emerging regional and global roles involves comprehending two ongoing transformations-within China and across Eurasia as a whole-and that the two are profoundly interrelated. Calder underlines that the geo-economic logic that prevailed across Eurasia before Columbus, and that made the Silk Road a central thoroughfare of world affairs for close to two millennia, is reasserting itself once again. |