Asad Ullah: Diplomacy by Design, Gebunden

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This book offers a critical and original analysis of how China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is actively reshaping the geopolitical architecture of the Middle East. Far from being a neutral economic enterprise, the BRI is conceptualized here as a deliberate and strategic modality of power---what the book terms "diplomacy by design"---through which China is redrawing regional alignments, recalibrating state relations, and subtly displacing long-standing Western influence. Drawing on case studies from key Middle Eastern states---including the Gulf monarchies, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and some part of the Levant---the book situates China's infrastructural diplomacy within the broader context of regional fragmentation, post-American recalibration, and the emergence of multipolar diplomacy. It engages critically with concepts such as sovereignty, strategic autonomy, and the infrastructure-security nexus, arguing that the BRI constitutes a new grammar of international engagement that departs from traditional Western models.