Chinesische Seidenstraßeninitiative und amerikanische Gewichtsverlagerung

This book sheds light on the USA’s and China’s most recent foreign-policy initiatives in Asia. Its authors examine how regional powers in South, South East, East and Central Asia have reacted in terms of both stance and action to the US reorienting its policy and China’s new Silk Road initiative. From various theoretical perspectives, they reveal that the forms the initiatives take often depend on how the states in the region shape them. Consequently, it becomes abundantly clear that those states’ acceptance, tolerance or rejection of the initiatives is heavily dependent on the dynamics within their domestic political systems. The book also demonstrates that both democracies and autocracies in the region endeavour to retain a modicum of autonomy and to not join forces permanently and unreservedly with one of the two superpowers.