Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations explores China’s relations with the Eurasian continent’s regions and countries in a multipolar era, providing an equal and balanced platform for scholars and practitioners from East, West, North, and South. This diversity enriches the contribution, giving it a dynamic ability to examine sources in different languages and cover a vast geography.

Divided into ten parts, this handbook analyses the major powers in a Multipolar World Order; China’s political and economic interests in post-Soviet Eurasia, Middle East, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Arctic; and China’s relations with the US, Russia, Eurasian Economic Union, NATO and other players. International technology and environmental experts consider the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative, along with other international economic and transport corridors, and examine China’s multilateral relations and Digital Silk Road and e-governance roles. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations also contains official documents detailing the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and several European and Asian states, making it an authoritative source on diplomatic affairs.

This groundbreaking book will be of interest to policymakers, businessmen, scholars, and students of international relations, area studies, cybersecurity and digitalization, economics and the politics of international trade, security studies, foreign policy, global governance, international organizations, and environmental studies.

Mher Sahakyan is the founder and director of the China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research. He is the editor of Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations and China and Eurasian Powers in Multipolar World Order: Security, Diplomacy, Economy and Cybersecurity (Routledge, 2023). Mher is co-editor of China and Eurasia: Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order (Routledge, 2021). He is the author of the book China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Armenia, published in Armenian and Russian. It was shortlisted by the International Convention of Asia Scholars in Leiden, Netherlands, for its 2021 book prize. He is also the author of The New Great Power Competition in Central Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for the Gulf, a Working Paper published in 2021 by the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in the UAE.

He holds a doctorate in international relations from China’s Nanjing University. Mher Sahakyan was a 2020-2022 AsiaGlobal Fellow of the Asia Global Institute of the University of Hong Kong, where he published nine articles. He is an elected advisory board member of the International Institute for Peace, Austria, and the School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, Woxsen University, India. Mher is also a member of the British Association for Chinese Studies, the Asia Society of Hong Kong, the International Political Science Association and the Author’s Licensing and Collecting Society. He is a lecturer at the Russian-Armenian University and Yerevan State University.

Mher Sahakyan founded the Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia annual international conference, which unites scholars, diplomats and officials for implanting discussions. Mher has received invitations to showcase his research as a keynote speaker at the Renmin University and Corvinus University of Budapest and as a speaker at the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, International Institute for Peace, Moscow State University, Eastern Economic Forum, University of Hong Kong, Shanghai University, University of Edinburgh, King’s College London, Academic Council on the United Nations System, Delegation of the EU to China, City University of Hong Kong, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Hong Kong Baptist University, Istanbul Gedik University, and several others.