China and Eurasia (Rethinking Asia and International Relations)

This book facilitates exchanges between scholars and researchers from around the world on China-Eurasia relations.

Comparing perspectives and methodologies, it promotes interdisciplinary dialogue on China’s pivot towards Eurasia, the Belt and Road initiative, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Beijing’s cooperation and arguments with India, the EU, Western Balkans and South Caucasus states and the Sino-Russian struggle for multipolarity and multilateralism in Eurasia. It also researches digitalization processes in Eurasia, notably it focuses on China's Silk Road and Digital Agenda of Eurasian Economic Union. Multipolarity without multilateralism is a dangerous mix. Great power competitions will remain. In the Asian regional system more multilateral cushions have to be developed. Scholars from different nations including China, India, Russia, Austria, Armenia, Georgia, United Arab Emirates and Montenegro introduce their own, independent research, making recommendations on the developments in China-Eurasia relations, and demonstrating that through joint discussions it is possible to find ways for cooperation and for ensuring peaceful coexistence.

The book will appeal to policymakers and scholars and students in Chinese, Eurasian, International and Oriental Studies.

Mher D. Sahakyan is the founder and director of the China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, Armenia; and in 2020/2021 also AsiaGlobal Fellow, Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, China.

Heinz Gärtner is lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna and at Danube University.