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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. Mobilities, flows and spaces therefore become significant in understanding the imperatives within which logistics functions as also the occasional resistance and sensitivities that it encounters. Corridors of Engagement engages with this interface of logistics and mobilities in various Asian spaces to underline the significance of these engagements in a wider global context.

Contents: 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 and Road Initiative/Swaran Singh.9. Non-traditional Security in China-India Maritime Cooperation/Zhong Ai.