This is only for the authors, who’s abstracts were accepted by February 20, please do not send any chapter or abstract.

Dear  friends and colleagues,

I hope you enjoyed our conference, and I am looking forward to seeing you at the VII Eurasian Research in Modern China and Eurasia in Yerevan in 2026. https://chinastan.org/2026/01/27/cfpeurasianresearchvii/

Thank you for your interest in submitting your abstracts for the forthcoming  Routledge Handbook of Eurasian Geopolitics.

I am sending you updated information in details:

1. Please note that the conference was intended to unite the team and investigate our first findings. Participation does not guarantee publication; all abstracts and chapters will undergo review and may be accepted or declined by peer reviewers, editors, or publishers. As we are all in this business, we know there is nothing personal.

2. Please note that when we say Eurasia, we mean the Eurasian continent. Please check the introduction of the attached preview of the Routledge Handbook of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Eurasia (you can find it in my December 16 email) .  Therefore, all topics on multilateral, bilateral, geoeconomic, geopolitical, high-tech, and cyber Interdisciplinary research is more than welcome, as long as it is connected to geopolitics and the Eurasian continent, its regions, countries, or developments.

3. As you can see, all chapters in our previous volumes and handbooks are connected, and all our books have a conclusion. To tie all chapters together, we are using geopolitics and the Multipolar World Order 2.0 concept, which we developed in 2023 (please see the introduction of the China and Eurasian Powers in a Multipolar World Order 2.0, in my December 16 email ). In this case balance of power, hedging, bandwagoing, polarisation can also be used.

4. We have a lot of time for finalisng chapters (up to 6000-7000 words, all inclusive)  until August 15, 2026. Please pay huge attention on your title, research question and design, argument, methodology, structure, and conclusion. We are not interested to see lengthy literature reviews; it needs to support the author’s main text but not create huge pause . We are looking forward to seeing the authors’ interviews with policymakers, diplomats, and well-known scholars in their text, which will make chapters unique. Therefore, please consider taking at least 2-5 interviews for your chapters.

5. Please use The Chicago style (only the version in this link) https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html#cg-videos

6. The author must declare that the submitted chapter is original, has not been published elsewhere, or will not be republished. There are some rules for “accepted manuscript” publishing at your own or institutional website, but we will be back to it after publishing the book.

7. Please note that we will spend a lot of time reviewing and editing, so send only when you are sure that the chapter is in its best form and if you are sure that you want to go forward with Routledge Handbook of Eurasian Geopolitics book project. Please do not send an early draft so as not to receive rejection at once. Please also do not send any translated work which you published in other language.

8. I understand that training varies across countries, but as we work with a British publisher, we need to follow their rules, and it is the practice in contemporary international academia. Therefore, please do not copy and paste directly from the text, even if you cite the author. Please paraphrase or put in “  ” if it is a direct quotation (copy-paste), of course, citing in both cases.

9. Please note that before reading, we will check all chapters for the AI, as we did it before. As we all will agree no one is interested to review or edit AI’s text.  Please also be careful with it, please check and create your references by yourself.  AI is adding references which does not exists or change them harming all. Please check this sad situation from Hong Kong.

Please, if you translate or correct grammar with the help of AI, please add the following note.

“Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)

This chapter was written by me; no Generative AI was used for content creation or idea development. I only used ….. for translating, spelling, and grammar correcting.”

However, as I mentioned, if the tools I mentioned show a content generated by the AI or copy paste, we will not proceed with this text and will send a polite, diplomatic rejection without going into details. I am sure that here we have very responsible people, and we respect each other’s time. As we all know, checking every email, abstract, and chapter takes a lot of time and effort.

10.  We are paying attention to the continuation of the Research that our international team implemented before. Therefore, when drafting chapters, please pay attention to the chapters published by your colleagues in these books, if your libraries have them, if no, please suggest to your libraries:

1. Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations.

2. Routledge Handbook of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Eurasia.

3. China and Eurasian Powers in Multipolar World Order 2.0 Security, Diplomacy, Economy, and Cyberspace

4. China and Eurasia: Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order

12.   Dear friends and colleagues, the quality is the most important thing, as in our previous books. For this reason, our team’s books appeared in the best universities’ libraries (SAIS, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Hong Kong, etc), and they were indexed in WOS and Scopus. I am more than sure that with this strong team, we will write high-quality, timely, and sophisticated work. If you check citations you can see also, that our books and chapters are well cited even in these short period of time.

I wish all of us good luck. Thank you once again for your interest in joining this very ambitious book project. I am sure that during our next conference, we will make significant progress and share good news. It was great pleasure to see you in Yerevan, I am looking forward and it is my honor to work with you on Routledge Handbook of Eurasian Geopolitics