A Tale of Rice and Copper: A World-Systems Analysis of Chinese Hegemony in Pakistan

Sarieddine, Toufic

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-06-29
  • 售價: $5,040
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$4,788
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 206
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 9819735076
  • ISBN-13: 9789819735075
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商品描述

This book explores Chinese investments in, and cooperation with Pakistan under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Analyzing the BRI's Pakistan limb, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the book illustrates the hegemonic tug of war between Washington and Beijing in Pakistan. There, China demonstrates its capacity to imprint its modus operandi onto peripheries through channels such as institutions, law, and currency, its economic dominance in production, trade, and finance through the control of quasi-monopolies on high-yielding economic processes (especially renewables and hard infrastructure) fostering trade surpluses which ultimately establish a net stream of inward revenue from Pakistan-as-periphery, military dominance to safeguard these revenue streams and furnish security to Islamabad, and cultural hegemony to socialize it at the level of the individual through media cooperation, state-wide language courses, and foreign education. The book addresses the need for an in-depth and comprehensive examination of a state under the Belt & Road Initiative, and will be of interest to scholars of China, South Asian affairs, international relations generally, and of geopolitics.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討了中國在「一帶一路」倡議下對巴基斯坦的投資和合作。通過分析巴基斯坦的「中巴經濟走廊」,本書展示了華盛頓和北京在巴基斯坦之間的霸權角力。在這裡,中國展示了其通過機構、法律和貨幣等渠道將其作業方式植入邊緣地區的能力,通過對高產出經濟過程(尤其是可再生能源和硬基礎設施)的準壟斷控制來實現在生產、貿易和金融方面的經濟主導地位,從而促進貿易順差,最終建立起從巴基斯坦作為邊緣地區流入的凈收入流,並通過軍事霸權來保護這些收入流並為伊斯蘭堡提供安全保障,並通過媒體合作、全國性語言課程和外國教育等方式實現文化霸權,將其社會化至個人層面。本書探討了對一個參與「一帶一路」倡議的國家進行深入全面的研究的需求,對中國、南亞事務、國際關係以及地緣政治的學者具有興趣。

作者簡介

Toufic Sarieddine was born in Lebanon. He studied at the American University of Beirut and worked at the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees before earning his doctorate from Nagoya University's Graduate School of International Development. His research focuses on the rise of China in the BRI era and its impact on US hegemony vis-à-vis the Global South with a focus on the Middle East and Southeast Asia. He currently resides in Nagoya, Japan, where he lectures at the Nagoya University of Foreign Studies and Nagoya City University. A bantering drummer, he listens to Fairouz, The Smiths, French Indie, and City Pop, depending on which world power is behaving the worst in a given week. He strongly recommends playing Sidereal Confluence.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Toufic Sarieddine出生於黎巴嫩。他在貝魯特美國大學就讀,並在聯合國難民事務高級專員辦事處工作,後來在名古屋大學國際發展研究所獲得博士學位。他的研究專注於中國在一帶一路時代的崛起,以及其對美國在全球南方的霸權地位的影響,尤其關注中東和東南亞地區。他目前居住在日本名古屋,並在名古屋外國語大學和名古屋市立大學講授課程。作為一位幽默風趣的鼓手,他根據每周哪個世界大國的表現最差來聆聽Fairouz、The Smiths、法國獨立音樂和City Pop等音樂。他強烈推薦玩《Sidereal Confluence》遊戲。