ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations explores China’s relations with the Eurasian continent’s regions and countries in a multipolar era, providing an equal and balanced platform for scholars and practitioners from East, West, North, and South. This diversity enriches the contribution, giving it a dynamic ability to examine sources in different languages and cover a vast geography.
Divided into ten parts, this handbook book analyses the major powers in a Multipolar World Order; China’s political and economic interests in post-Soviet Eurasia, Middle East, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Arctic; and China's relations with the US, Russia, Eurasian Economic Union, NATO and other players. International technology and environmental experts consider the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative, along with other international economic and transport corridors, and examine China’s multilateral relations and Digital Silk Road and e-governance roles. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations also contains official documents detailing the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and several European and Asian states, making it an authoritative source on diplomatic affairs.
This groundbreaking book will be of interest to policymakers, businessmen, scholars, and students of international relations, area studies, cybersecurity and digitalization, economics and the politics of international trade, security studies, foreign policy, global governance, international organizations, and environmental studies.
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Preface in Chinese
By Kevin Lo
Preface in English
By Kevin Lo
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction of Chinese Eurasian Relations
MHER SAHAKYAN AND ANAHIT PARZYAN
Part I
Powers Play in Eurasia in a Multipolar World Order 2.0
1. China’s Position on Russo-Ukrainian War in a Multipolar World Order 2.0
MHER SAHAKYAN
2. US-China Competition in Eurasia: Actions and Reactions in a Multipolar World Order 2.0
GREG SIMONS
PART II
Central Asia
3. Empowering the Dragon: Strategic Competition of China and Russia in the Central Asian Natural Gas Sector
TAMAS DUDLAK
4. India’s Engagement with Central Asia and Competition with China in a Multipolar World Order 2.0
SRDJAN ULJEVIC
5. Belt and Road Initiative’s and Central Asia’s Challenges: Case Study Kazakhstan
RUSLAN IZIMOV
6. Rethinking China-Kyrgyzstan Relations: Addressing Challenges and Imbalances
ZAMIRA MURATALIEVA
Part III
Middle East
7. Turkey and China in the Eurasian Landmass: From Bilateral Relations to the Silk Road Cooperation
SELÇUK ÇOLAKOĞLU
8. Iran’s Look to the East Policy after US Withdrawal from Nuclear Deal: Chinese and Russian Directions
DAVOUD GHARAYAGH-ZANDI
9. The GCC states and China: Asymmetric Relations in a Multipolar World Order 2.0
MÁTÉ SZALAI
Part IV
Europe
10. Unpacking Germany’s Contemporary Relationship with China: The Political and Economic Factors Driving the Hedge
MAXIMILIAN OHLE, RICHARD J. COOK AND ZHAOYING HAN
11. Relations between China and Italy in the Context of the Development of the World Market
ORAZIO MARIA GNERRE
12. Czech-China Relations: Future Possibilities and Policy Shifts in a Multipolar World Order 2.0
ŠÁRKA WAISOVÁ
13. Analysing Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between China and Serbia: Political, Economic, and Military-Technical Relations
NENAD STEKIĆ
14. Poland-China Relations: Policy Shifts, Economic, Educational, and Cultural Ties in a Multipolar World Order 2.0
ELŻBIETA PROŃ
15. China and Greece: Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations in the Multipolar World Order 2.0
GINA PANAGOPOULOU
Part V
Asia-Pacific
16. Examining Hong Kong’s Agency within Sino-American Relations
BRIAN WONG YUE SHUN AND JASON YIP WAI CHEONG
17. US-China Competition: Framing New Security Architecture in the Asia-Pacific Region
AHMED BUX JAMALI, MEHMOOD HUSSAIN AND HONGSONG LIU
18. Unpacking the Discursive Strategies and Drivers of Chinese Visions of an Alternative World Order: History and Emotions in the South China Sea Dispute
ERIC POMÈS AND MATTHIEU GRANDPIERRON
19. Exploring the Conditions for Settling the South China Sea Territorial Dispute between China and Malaysia
YULONG DAI
20. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Japan’s Strategic Response through the AAGC, QUAD and FOIP 2.0
TONY TAI-TING LIU
21. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Sri Lanka: A Geopolitical Perspective
ASANTHA SENEVIRATHNA
22. Mongolia and China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Multipolar World Order 2.0
CONNOR JUDGE
PART VI
Arctic
23. The Dragon and the Bear on the Polar Silk Road: The Impact of Sino-Russian Cooperation on the Great Power Competition in the Arctic
JAN ŽELEZNÝ
Part VII
China’s Relations with the Eurasian Economic Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
24. The Eurasian Economic Union–China Relations: Challenges and Prospects
GOHAR BARSEGHYAN
25. Analysing CPC’s Image-Building for the EU and the US in the Context of NATO
ARMINE ARZRUMANYAN
Part VIII
Digitalization and International Relations
26. Legal Aspects of the Digital Silk Road: Trends and Challenges
MAGDALENA ŁĄGIEWSKA
27. Exploring the Competition and Technological Decoupling between the US and China: A Case Study of the Digital Silk Road and the EAEU States
LEV M. SOKOLSCHIK AND EDUARD Z. GALIMULLIN
Part IX
Environmental Politics
28. Environmental Geopolitics: The Belt and Road Initiative and China’s Global Influence
KEVIN LO
29. Tackling Environmental Worries and Social Tensions in Italy and China through E-Government Systems
GIORGIO CARIDI
Part X
CONCLUSION
30. Conclusion: The Eurasian Continent is in a Multipolar World Order 2.0 stage
MHER SAHAKYAN
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