China, Russia and Central Asian Infrastructure: Fragmenting or Reformatting the Region? (Hardcover)

Introduction. - Chapter 1. Central Asia as a region. - Chapter 2. Regional organization as a questionable reflection of Central Asian regionalism. - Chapter 3. No loans ? no roads: China- and Russia-sponsored multilateral financial institutions and their impact on regional cooperation. - Chapter 4. Not all the roads lead to Moscow: new transportation initiatives and their twofold effect on regional cooperation in Central Asia. - Chapter 5. Trading places in Central Asia: The “shift” in the nature of Russian and Chinese engagement and its effects on regional cooperation in the energy field. - Chapter 6. Laying wires ? making friends: Russia’s and China’s engagement in the telecommunication sector and its effects on regional cooperation. - Conclusion