Armenia and the Belt and Road Initiative: Perspectives from Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

This book analyses the opportunities enabled for Armenia by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the framework of economic cooperation, policy diversification, social inclusion and regional cohesion. It will be of interest to policy-makers, international relations, security studies and area studies.

Sos Khachikyan is the Head of the Chair of Macroeconomics, and the Coordinator of the Centre for Digital Transformation and Data Analyses at the Armenian State University of Economics. He has more than 20 years of research experience in education, communication and technology-based management.

Jagannath Panda is the Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) at the ISDP, Sweden. He is also a Professor at the Department of Regional and Global Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a Senior Fellow at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies in the Netherlands. He is the Series Editor for Routledge Studies on Think Asia.

Ralph M. Wrobel is Professor of Economics and Coordinator of the East Asia Centre at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany. His teaching and research areas are social market economy and emerging markets in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Asia.