The Chinese Constitution Of Central Asia: Regions And Intertwined Actors In International Relations (politics And Development Of Contemporary China)

## Politics and Development of Contemporary China series As China's power grows, the search has begun in earnest for what superpower status will mean for the People's Republic of China as a nation as well as the impact of its new-found influence on the Asia-Pacific region and the global international order at large. By providing a venue for exciting and ground-breaking titles, the aim of this series is to explore the domestic and international implications of China's rise and transformation through a number of key areas including politics, development and foreign policy. The series will also give a strong voice to non-western perspectives on China's rise in order to provide a forum that connects and compares the views of academics from both the east and west reflecting the truly international nature of the discipline. Nadine Godehardt analyzes how Chinese experts define Central Asia when they talk and write about policy issues related to China's immediate western neighbourhood. China's commitments in Central Asia illustrate how regional foreign policy works and how long-standing principles of Chinese foreign policy might be revised in the near future. China's rise has 'moved' Asia, which is why it seems that what we have traditionally regarded as the geographic and political scope of Asia might actually considerably change in the near future. Nadine Godehardt gives crucial insights into the Chinese expert discourse on Central Asia - analyzing how Chinese experts define Central Asia when they talk and write about policy issues related to China's immediate Western neighbourhood. In this context, she gives an inside perspective on Chinese voices whose meanings are rarely examined in Chinese International Relations studies Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-11 The Study of Regions in International Relations Theory....Pages 12-46 The Political Constitution of Regions....Pages 47-71 The Regional Embeddedness of Intertwined Actors....Pages 72-97 China and Central Asia: Twenty Years of a Demanding Relationship....Pages 98-127 The Chinese Constitution of Central Asia....Pages 128-178 Conclusion....Pages 179-186 Back Matter....Pages 187-232