This book looks at how China and India's growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russia-U.S. 'Great Game' at the heart of the old continent. In the years to come, both Asian powers are looking to redeploy their rivalry on the Central Asian and Afghan theatres on a geopolitical, but also political and economic level.

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M. Laruelle J.François Huchet S. Peyrouse B. Balci J.P. Cabestan E. Kavalski M. Singh Roy S. Singh B. Chaudhuri M. Sethi Z. Huasheng P.L. Dash G. Sachdeva L. Gayer R. Castets

Inhalt
Why Central Asia? The Strategic Rationale of Indian and Chinese Involvement in the Region; M.Laruelle, J.François Huchet, S.Peyrouse & B.Balci PART I: NEGOTIATING PROJECTIONS OF POWER IN CENTRAL ASIA Russia Facing China and India in Central Asia: Cooperation, Competition, and Hesitations; M.Laruelle Central Asia-China Relations and their Relative Weight in Chinese Foreign Policy; J.P.Cabestan An Elephant in a China Shop? India's 'Look North' to Central AsiaSeeing Only China; E.Kavalski Afghanistan and Regional Strategy: The India Factor; M.Singh Roy Afghan Factor in Reviving Sino-Pak Axis; S.Singh PART II: INDIA AND CHINA IN CENTRAL ASIA, BETWEEN COOPERATION, PARALLELISM, AND COMPETITION India and China in Central Asia: Mirroring their Bilateral Relations; J.François Huchet India - China Interactions in Central Asia through the Prism of Paul Kennedy's Analysis of Great Powers; B.Chaudhuri & M.Sethi Cooperation or Competition? China and India in Central Asia; Z.Huasheng PART III: CHINESE AND INDIAN ECONOMIC IMPLEMENTATIONS FROM THE CASPIAN BASIN TO AFGHANISTAN Scramble for Caspian Energy: Can Big Power Competition Sidestep China and India?; P.L.Dash Comparing the Economic Involvement of China and India in post-Soviet Central Asia; S.Peyrouse The Reconstruction Issue in Afghanistan: The Indian and Chinese Contribution; G.Sachdeva PART IV. REVISITED HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS, DISPUTED RELIGIOUS MODERNITIES From the Oxus to the Indus: Looking Back at India-Central Asia Connexions in the Early Modern Age; L.Gayer Uyghur Islam: Caught between Foreign Influences and Domestic Constraints; R.Castets The Jama'at al Tabligh in Central Asia: A Mediator in the Recreation of Islamic Relations with the Indian Subcontinent; B.Balci