Contents Contributors Preface 1. The Politics of Connectivity: Geostrategic Perception and Misperception Challenges Anindya Jyoti Majumdar 2. Semiotic Abstractions and Symbiotic Constructions: Implications of the “OBORisation” for Central Asia Farkhod Tolipov 3. Political Economy of Chinese Economic Engagements with Small Nations in the Indian Ocean Region: Case of Sri Lanka Sumanasiri Liyanage and Emesha Piumini Perera 4. Russia: Change of Vision Oleg A. Donskikh 5. Transcending Post-Colonial Frontiers: Re-envisaging the Grand Trunk Road Priya Singh 6. Labour Corridors in Eurasia: Mobility and the Gastarbeiter Experience Anita Sengupta 7. The “Belt and Road” Initiative: “Silk Road Spirit” for Better Cooperation between India and China B. R. Deepak 8. India’s Engagement with Belt & Road Initiative Swaran Singh 9. Non-traditional Security in China-India Maritime Cooperation Zhong Ai Asia has re-emerged as a useful case study for exploring the complex relationship between pursuing economic development through trans-state linkages and promoting political agendas through securitisation. New routes and in the process new partners have been sought for creating opportunities for rethinking traditional ways of conceptualising partnerships. However, logistics is as much about institutional setups and the actual corridors through which it operates as the capacity of movement to create new assemblages of power, create identities but also shape the ‘microgeographies’ of everyday life along these corridors of engagement.