This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)'s impact on Pakistan's economy, politics, and society, covering its developmental benefits as well as resulting controversies.
Pascal Abb is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, focusing on how a rising China is interacting with global conflict environments. His research on this issue has been published in the Journal of Contemporary China, Third World Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, and others.
Filippo Boni is a senior lecturer at The Open University in the UK. He is the author of Sino-Pakistani Relations. Politics, Military and Regional Dynamics (Routledge, 2019) and his research has been published in The British Journal of Politics and International Studies, Asian Survey, Regional and Federal Studies and Asia Policy, among others.
Hasan H. Karrar is an Associate Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences. His research on Chinese international engagement appeared as The New Silk Road Diplomacy: China's Central Asian Foreign Policy since the Cold War (UBC Press, 2010) and more recently in Antipode, Comparative Studies in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Modern Asian Studies, and other scholarly outlets.
