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

Table of Contents

PART I

Introduction

1. Introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Eurasian Continent

MHER D. SAHAKYAN and KEVIN LO

PART II

Silk Road Economic Belt

2. Rebuilding Eurasian Interconnectivity: China–Central Asia–West Asia Economic Corridor

MHER D. SAHAKYAN

3. Evolution of the China–Mongolia–Russia Economic Corridor: Weighing Functionality and Rhetoric

CONNOR JUDGE

4. Explaining the Belt and Road Initiative: A Case Study of the New Eurasian Land Bridge Economic Corridor

CHRIS B. WENSINK

5. Contextualising Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar Economic Corridor in the Era of Multipolar World Order 2.0: Perspectives from Bangladesh

SHANJIDA SHAHAB UDDIN and RAIAN HOSSAIN

6. The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor in Multipolar World Order 2.0: Perspectives from India

JOSEPH MOSES

7. China–Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor and Lancang-Mekong Sub-Regional Cooperation in the Era of Multipolar World Order 2.0

JINRUI LIU

PART III

Digital and Space Silk Roads

8. The Security Dimension of the Digital Silk Road: From Netpolitik to Digitalpolitik

PAULO AFONSO B. DUARTE, ANTÓNIO TAVARES, NASIM MOSAVI and FERNARDO P. L. AMORIM

9. Sino-Russian Cybersecurity Cooperation in a Multipolar World Order: Implications for the Digital Silk Road

GRACE X. YANG

10. China’s Starry Constellations with Russia and the Global South: The Space Silk Road Analysed

TIMNA MICHLMAYR and JAN ŽELEZNÝ

PART IV

Environmental Governance and Critical Raw Materials

11. The Environmental Governance of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

KEVIN LO

12. Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact on Critical Raw Materials in Eurasia: The Case of the EU

GINA PANAGOPOULOU

PART V

Geopolitical Dynamics

13. Unpacking Chinese Communication about the Belt and Road Initiative: Moral Realist Project in a World Order 2.0

MATTHIEU GRANDPIERRON and ÉRIC POMÈS

14. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the US Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

CHAOTING CHENG

15. From Obama to Biden: The United States' Position on BRI under the “China Threat” Narrative

CHANG LIU and JIATE WANG

PART VI

Central Asia and the Russian Far East

16. Multipolarity, the Rise of China, and Kazakhstan's Emergence as a Middle Power

JESSICA NEAFIE

17. The Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

JILDIZ NICHARAPOVA

18. India and China in Central Asia: Neither Rivalry nor Collaboration

MAHESH RANJAN DEBATA

19. Social Innovation Projects in Belt and Road Initiative Countries: Case Studies of Uzbekistan and China

BAKHROM RADJABOV

20. Chinese Investment in the Russian Far East: Problems and Prospects

OLGA ZALESSKAIA

PART VII

South Caucasus

21. Beyond the West-Russia Dichotomy: Case Studies on the Hedging Strategies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

MAXIMILIAN OHLE

22. The International North-South Transport Corridor and the Belt and Road Initiative in the South Caucasus

YEGHIA TASHJIAN

PART VIII

Middle East

23. The Belt and Road Initiative and China–GCC Relations: Strategic Partnerships in a Multipolar World Order 2.0

STEVEN WRIGHT

24. Prospects for New Infrastructure Cooperation between China and the Gulf Countries under the Belt and Road Initiative

CHUCHU ZHANG

25. Geopolitics and Sanctions: The Energy Partnership of Iran and China

TAMAS DUDLAK

PART IX

Europe

26. Navigating the Silk Road in Central and Eastern Europe

ZDENĚK ROD, TOMÁŠ KOLOMAZNÍK, RICHARD STRAKA, and MIROSLAV PLUNDRICH

27. Towards a Shared Future: Upgrade of Strategic Partnership between China and Serbia within the BRI Framework

NENAD STEKIĆ

28. Rethinking Italy–China Cooperation in the Belt and Road Initiative: The Communication’s Impact in the Italian Case Study

GIORGIO CARIDI

PART X

Conclusion

29. Conclusion: A Research and Policy Agenda for the Belt and Road Initiative

KEVIN LO and MHER D. SAHAKYAN