Edited By Mher D. Sahakyan, Kevin Lo

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Table of Contents

PART I

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. Understanding 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 PAULO LOPES 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 MICHLMAYRand 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

ÉRIC POMÈS AND MATTHIEU GRANDPIERRON

 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

CHUNCHU ZHANG

25. Iran’s Look East Policy and the Energy Silk Road: 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

Editors

Biography

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.