title: The Enlarged Mediterranean, China’s Centripetal Imperialism, and the Case Study of the Balkans
abstract: Understanding china's presence in the Mediterranean can only start by bearing in mind the peculiarity of the region, given its political, cultural, and economic divisions. considering Westerners' failures based on the theory of the Greater Middle east, we would rather support the concept of an enlarged Mediterranean and analyse it in its various facets. After discussing the main scholarly positions on the topic, we propose an interpretation of china's impact in the region by introducing the conc
journal: Institute of International Politics ; Economics eBooks