China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia : [electronic resource] a political economic analysis of its purposes, perils, and promise / Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, editor

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TIn November 2015, the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations (Wong MNC Center), a US-based think tank focusing on the political economy of multinational corporations in/from East Asia, and East China Normal University (ECNU)’s School of Advanced International and Area Studies (SAIAS) orchestrated a very successful
international academic conference in Shanghai entitled “The
Political Economy of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia” which gathered academics, consultants, and researchers from Australia, China, India, and the United States of America to present their latest research findings about and discuss topics such as the goals, implementation, and implications of the MSRI. Seeking to go beyond past
treatments of the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), which have often been subsumed within overly general discussions of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative, workshop participants focused only on the MSRI, examined specific country pairs like China’s MSRI and Pakistan, China’s MSRI and India, and China’s MSRI and Sri Lanka, and undertook deeper political economic analysis than most other analysts do. The results of that conference are embodied in this book, which represents one of the most in-depth contemporary treatments of the MSRI.