Chinas Western Frontier and Eurasia - 9780367694432

Taylor & Francis

Chinas Western Frontier and EurasiaThe Politics of State and Region-Building\nAuthor(s): Zenel Garcia\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367694432, 978-0367694432\nSynopsis\nChina has emerged as a dominant power in Eurasian affairs that not only exercises significant political and economic power, but increasingly, ideational power too.\n\nSince the founding of the Peoples Republic, Chinese Communist Party leaders have sought to increase state capacity and exercise more effective control over their western frontier through a series of state-building initiatives. Although these initiatives have always incorporated an international component, the collapse of the USSR, increasing globalization, and the partys professed concerns about terrorism, separatism, and extremism have led to a region-building project in Eurasia. Garcia traces how domestic elite-led narratives about security and development generate state-buildin.