S. Mahmud Ali Bücher

The book explores Sino-US strategic competition through the lens of major secondary stakeholders like Japan, Russia, India, the Koreas, and ASEAN. By utilizing "strategic triangles" to analyze the dynamics between the US, China, and these stakeholders, it reveals how these nations leverage their relationships to influence the rivalry between the superpowers. This approach enriches the understanding of the complex security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, highlighting the multifaceted interactions that shape regional dynamics.

Focusing on the strategic competition between the US and China, the book explores its implications for global security and the Asia-Pacific region. It traces the evolution of their security interactions, from alliance to competition, and analyzes potential conflict scenarios. The author highlights both the risks and opportunities arising from this pivotal moment in international relations, making the work a valuable resource for researchers and scholars in security studies.

Focusing on China's Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI), the book explores its evolution and key components as a transformative project for ancient trade routes. It delves into the foreign policy and economic strategies driving the BRI, while evaluating its geoeconomic and geopolitical implications for the region. The author also investigates whether the BRI poses a challenge to the US-led global order, potentially establishing a Sinocentric framework in the 21st century.

The book offers a detailed analysis of the evolving international relations among the USA, China, and Russia, tracing their interactions from the late 19th century. Through a forensic examination of primary US archival documents, it reveals how American strategic perspectives on Sino-Russian relations have shifted over time. The author highlights the increasing complexity of these relationships, influenced by changing US priorities and concerns, and discusses how US perceptions of Sino-Russian dynamics have impacted its own interests.

This text examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s. The book highlights the consequent linkages in alliance-building efforts and the subsequent triangular covert collaboration against Communist China, especially along Tibet's Himalayan frontiers. This secret alliance had an unexpected fall-out on the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. Lastly the book examines the divergence of Indo-Pakistani security policies along fundamental cleavages since the 1960s.