Routledge Handbook of China's Belt and Road Initiative in Eurasia

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-84095-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This handbook critically analyses and examines the impact of China’s Belt and Road (BRI) geostrategy in Eurasia. Over the last decade the BRI helped bring China economic and political superpower status, but the Russo-Ukrainian war brought seismic geopolitical and geoeconomic impacts and a new struggle between great powers.  Covering the impact of the BRI and the positions of other great, middle, and small powers, the ten parts explain the geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics along the Silk Road Economic Belt’s six major economic corridors, implementing case studies on Europe, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Russian Far East, Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.

 Expert scholars from East, West, North, and South engage with newer BRI concepts, such as the Digital Silk Road, the Green BRI, and the Space Silk Road, to create a book that will be of interest to policymakers, businesspeople, scholars, and students of area studies, cybersecurity and digitalization, economics, security studies, the politics of international trade, area studies, foreign policy, global governance, and international organizations.

Zielgruppe

General and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lo, Kevin

Sahakyan, Mher D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I 1. Introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Eurasian Continent  PART II: Silk Road Economic Belt 2. Rebuilding Eurasian Interconnectivity: China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor  3. Evolution of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor: Weighing functionality and rhetoric  4. Explaining the Belt and Road Initiative: A Case Study of the New Eurasian Land Bridge Economic Corridor  5. Understanding Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar Economic Corridor in the Era of Multipolar World Order 2.0: Perspectives from Bangladesh  6. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in Multipolar World Order 2.0: Perspectives from India  7. China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor and Lancang-Mekong Sub-Regional Cooperation in the Era of Multipolar World Order 2.0 PART III: Digital and Space Silk Roads  8. The security dimension of the Digital Silk Road: from Netpolitik to Digitalpolitik 9. Sino-Russian Cybersecurity Cooperation in a Multipolar World Order: Implications for the Digital Silk Road 10. China’s Starry Constellations with Russia and the Global South: The Space Silk Road Analysed  PART IV: Environmental Governance and Critical Raw Materials 11. The Environmental Governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative  12. Belt and Road Initiative’s impact on Critical Raw Materials in Eurasia:  The case of the EU PART V: Geopolitical Dynamics 13. Unpacking Chinese Communication about the Belt and Road Initiative: Moral Realist Project in a World Order 2.0  14. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the US Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis  15. From Obama to Biden: The United States Position on BRI under the “China Threat” Narrative  PART VI: Central Asia and the Russian Far East 16. Multipolarity, the Rise of China, and Kazakhstan's Emergence as a Middle Power  17. The Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan  18. India and China in Central Asia: Neither Rivalry nor Collaboration  19. Social Innovation Projects in Belt and Road Initiative Countries: Case Studies of Uzbekistan and China   20. Chinese Investment in the Russian Far East: Problems and Prospects  PART VII: South Caucasus 21. Beyond the West-Russia Dichotomy: Case Studies on the Hedging Strategies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia  22. The International North-South Transport Corridor and the Belt and Road Initiative in the South Caucasus  PART VIII: Middle East  23. The Belt and Road Initiative and China–GCC Relations: Strategic Partnerships in a Multipolar World Order 2.0   24. Prospects for New Infrastructure Cooperation between China and the Gulf Countries Under the Belt and Road Initiative  25. Iran's Look East Policy and the Energy Silk Road: The Energy Partnership of Iran and China  26. Navigating the Silk Road in Central and Eastern Europe  PART IX: Europe 27. Towards a Shared Future: Upgrade of Strategic Partnership between China and Serbia within the BRI framework  28. Rethinking Italy-China Cooperation in the Belt and Road Initiative: The Communication’s Impact in the Italian Case Study  PART X: Conclusion 29. Conclusion: A Research and Policy Agenda for the Belt and Road Initiative

Über Autor(innen)

Mher D. Sahakyan is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He is the founding director of the China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research in Armenia. Mher was an AsiaGlobal Fellow at the Asia Global Institute of the University of Hong Kong (2020/21 and 2022). He was a 2024 LEWI Visiting Fellow at the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. Mher holds a doctorate in international relations from China's Nanjing University. He is the editor of Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations and China and Eurasian Powers in Multipolar World Order 2.0: Security, Diplomacy, Economy and Cybersecurity, which Routledge published in 2024 and 2023.

Kevin Lo is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Acting Director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies of Hong Kong Baptist University. He has a PhD in Geography from the University of Melbourne. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian Energy Studies, an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to interdisciplinary research on all aspects of energy studies in Asia. He has won several major competitive grants from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong and has published in many leading journals, including Global Environmental Change, Political Geography, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Policy, Energy for Sustainable Development, Environmental Science & Policy, Cities, Habitat International, and Journal of Rural Studies.