Book Launch Seminar: Routledge Handbook of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Eurasia
Tue, 07 Oct 2025 - Tue, 07 Oct 2025
Yerevan, Arménie
Organized by: China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research and Routledge Research in Eurasian Geopolitics book series
Contact: info@chinastan.org
Time (Yerevan): 7 October 2025 at 14:00
Venue: Zoom Meeting (Audience members are requested to include their full name, surname, and institution in their profiles.)
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Organized by: China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research and Routledge Research in Eurasian Geopolitics book series
Book description
Routledge Handbook of China's Belt and Road Initiative in Eurasia critically analyses and examines the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) geostrategy in Eurasia. Over the last decade, the BRI contributed to China becoming an economic and political superpower, 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 BRI concepts to create a book that will be of interest to policymakers, businesspeople, scholars, and students of area studies, cybersecurity and digitalisation, economics, security studies, the politics of international trade, foreign policy, global governance, and international organisations.
You can order the Handbook from Routledge and Amazon.
Welcome and Introduction
Assoc. Prof. Dr Mher Sahakyan, Founding Director, China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, Founding Editor, Routledge Research in Eurasian Geopolitics book series.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-4/reb…
Keynote Speaker
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kevin Lo, Chair, Department of Geography, Director, David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-15/en…
Yeghia Tashjian, International Affairs Cluster Coordinator, Issam Fares Institute Public Policy and Interna‑tional Affairs‑American University of Beirut.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-29/in…
Prof. Dr. Olga Zalesskaia, Dean, Faculty of Foreign Languages and a Lecturer, Department of Russian History and Special Historical Disciplines, Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-26/ch…
Tomáš Kolomazník, PhD candidate the Metropolitan University in Prague.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-35/na…
Jiate Wang, Incoming MPhil/PhD candidate, King's College London; Assistant Researcher and Co‑chief of the New Media Department at D&C Think Tank and Center for Global Studies, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-20/ob…
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Matthieu Grandpierron, Head, Political Science department and a Postdoctoral Fellow, Vendée Catholic University.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-18/un…
Dr. Jinrui Liu, Postdoctoral Researcher, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-9/chi…
Joseph Moses, contributing member, Military Strategy & Intelligence team at the International Team for the Study of Security Verona.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-8/chi…
Dr. Maximilian Ohle, University of Tübingen.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-28/be…
Assist. Prof. Dr. Jessica Neafie, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Nazarbayev University.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003513872-22/mu…
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr Mher D. Sahakyan
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