{"product_id":"chinas-western-frontier-and-eurasia-zenel-garcia-9780367694432","title":"China's Western Frontier and Eurasia: The Politics of State and Region-Building","description":"\u003cp\u003eChina has emerged as a dominant power in Eurasian affairs that not only exercises significant political and economic power, but increasingly, ideational power too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the founding of the People's 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 party's 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-building initiatives, and then region-building projects. He also assesses how region-building projects are promoted through narratives of the historicity of China's engagement in Eurasia, the promotion of norms of non-interference, and appeals to mutual development. Finally, he traces the construction of regions through formal and informal institutions as well as integrative infrastructure. By presenting three phases of Chinese domestic state-building and region-building from 1988-present, Garcia shows how region-building projects have enabled China to increase state capacity, control, and development in its western frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecommended for scholars of China's international relations and development policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zenel Garcia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367694433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367694432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Zenel Garcia","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086543401215,"sku":"9780367694432","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60737002-361f-4c29-b8ae-b036e8d1762b.jpg?v=1769095278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chinas-western-frontier-and-eurasia-zenel-garcia-9780367694432","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}