{"product_id":"diplomacy-by-design-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-and-the-reordering-of-the-middle-east-9789819578757","title":"Diplomacy by Design: China's Belt and Road Initiative and the Reordering of the Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Asad Ullah\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World - Asian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969360216215,"sku":"9789819578757","price":14364.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789819578757.webp?v=1782921497","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/diplomacy-by-design-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-and-the-reordering-of-the-middle-east-9789819578757","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}