{"product_id":"diplomacy-by-design-asad-ullah-9789819578757","title":"Diplomacy by Design: China's Belt and Road Initiative and the Reordering of the Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Asad Ullah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9819578752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789819578757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Asad Ullah","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48520245838079,"sku":"9789819578757","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9176e0f-1d8f-4763-9fbf-76e65328caad.jpg?v=1778741602","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/diplomacy-by-design-asad-ullah-9789819578757","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}