Alpha Edition
China's Path to Power: Party, Military and the Politics of State Transition
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- Aquil Shah
- Alpha Edition
- Hardcover
- 9789386423962
- 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.81 inches
- 1.14 pounds
- Political Science > Public Policy - Military Policy
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
The rise of China and its wider implications for international politics form the most important issue in our time. China's economic miracle has contributed to growth and development both at home and abroad. China's economic growth has also enabled a rapid modernization of China's armed forces. China's military expenditure is still only a fifth of the United States' military budget but is fast catching up. China's increased economic and military might is changing not only Chinese society and how the Chinese view their role and place in the world but also the regional dynamics in Asia, and it has the potential to transform international politics at large. China's South Asia connectivity projects underway also have a broader context to the ambitious China Western Development (CWD) plan started in 2000. It involves six provinces (including Yunnan) and five autonomous regions including Tibet and Xinjiang bordering India. China's diplomacy can be divided into three levels: great power diplomacy (with the U.S. at the core), border diplomacy, and resource diplomacy. Based on different diplomatic requirements, China's soft power penetration falls into three different categories: economic aid, economic cooperation, and cultural penetration. As the book addresses this crucial issue quite deftly, it is hoped that it would prove to be a source of great information for the reader.
Author Bio
Aqil Shah is a political scientist and the Wick Cary Associate Professor of South Asian Politics in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
His research interests include democratic transitions, military coups, institutional norms and South Asian security issues. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in International Security, Perspectives on Politics, Democratization, Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, the Journal of Democracy, Foreign Affairs and Asian Survey as well as several edited volumes. He is the author of The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan (Harvard University Press, 2014).
Dr. Shah holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and an M Phil in International Development from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has been a Hewlett Research Fellow at the Center for Development, Democracy and the Rule of Law at Stanford University and a post-doc fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University.
Having previously taught at Dartmouth and Princeton, he offers courses on comparative democratization, civil-military relations, the politics of developing countries & South Asian International Relations. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Shah was a policy advisor in the Asia-Pacific Governance Program of the United Nations Development Program, and a senior analyst in the South Asia office of the International Crisis Group.
Source: The University of Oklahoma
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