A Eurasian transformation is underway, and it flows from China. With a geopolitically central location, the country’s domestic and international policies are poised to change the face of global affairs. The Belt and Road Initiative has called attention to a deepening Eurasian continentalism that has, argues Kent Calder, much more significant implications than have yet been recognized. In Super Continent, Calder presents a theoretically guided and empirically grounded explanation for these changes. He shows that key inflection points, beginning with the Four Modernizations and the collapse of the Soviet Union; and culminating in China’s response to the Global Financial Crisis and Crimea’s annexation, are triggering tectonic shifts. Furthermore, understanding China’s emerging regional and global roles involves comprehending two ongoing transformations—within China and across Eurasia as a whole—and that the two are profoundly interrelated. Calder underlines that the geo-economic logic that prevailed across Eurasia before Columbus, and that made the Silk Road a central thoroughfare of world affairs for close to two millennia, is reasserting itself once again.
Table of Content
Introduction
1. Eurasian Reconnection and Renaissance
2. The Silk Road Syndrome
3. Eurasia in the Making
4. The Logic of Integration
5. Quiet Revolution in China
6. Southeast Asia: The First Experiment
7. Russia: An Unbalanced Entente
8. The New Europe: Deepening Synergies
9. Shadows and Critical Uncertainties
10. Toward a New World Order
11. Prospects and Policy Implications
About the author
Kent E. Calder is Director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, and Interim Dean of Johns Hopkins University SAIS in Washington, D.C.
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