This handbook analyses the impact of China's Belt and Road geostrategy in Eurasia. Over the last decade the BRI helped bring China economic and political superpower status, but the Russo-Ukrainian war brought seismic geopolitical and geoeconomic impacts.
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PART I 1. Introduction of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Eurasian Continent PART II: Silk Road Economic Belt 2. Rebuilding Eurasian Interconnectivity: China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor 3. Evolution of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor: Weighing functionality and rhetoric 4. Explaining the Belt and Road Initiative: A Case Study of the New Eurasian Land Bridge Economic Corridor 5. Understanding Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor in the Era of Multipolar World Order 2. 0: Perspectives from Bangladesh 6. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor in Multipolar World Order 2. 0: Perspectives from India 7. China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor and Lancang-Mekong Sub-Regional Cooperation in the Era of Multipolar World Order 2. 0 PART III: Digital and Space Silk Roads 8. The security dimension of the Digital Silk Road: from Netpolitik to Digitalpolitik 9. Sino-Russian Cybersecurity Cooperation in a Multipolar World Order: Implications for the Digital Silk Road 10. China's Starry Constellations with Russia and the Global South: The Space Silk Road Analysed PART IV: Environmental Governance and Critical Raw Materials 11. The Environmental Governance of China's Belt and Road Initiative 12. Belt and Road Initiative's impact on Critical Raw Materials in Eurasia: The case of the EU PART V: Geopolitical Dynamics 13. Unpacking Chinese Communication about the Belt and Road Initiative: Moral Realist Project in a World Order 2. 0 14. China's Belt and Road Initiative and the US Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis 15. From Obama to Biden: The United States Position on BRI under the "China Threat" Narrative PART VI: Central Asia and the Russian Far East 16. Multipolarity, the Rise of China, and Kazakhstan's Emergence as a Middle Power 17. The Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan 18. India and China in Central Asia: Neither Rivalry nor Collaboration 19. Social Innovation Projects in Belt and Road Initiative Countries: Case Studies of Uzbekistan and China 20. Chinese Investment in the Russian Far East: Problems and Prospects PART VII: South Caucasus 21. Beyond the West-Russia Dichotomy: Case Studies on the Hedging Strategies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia 22. The International North-South Transport Corridor and the Belt and Road Initiative in the South Caucasus PART VIII: Middle East 23. The Belt and Road Initiative and China-GCC Relations: Strategic Partnerships in a Multipolar World Order 2. 0 24. Prospects for New Infrastructure Cooperation between China and the Gulf Countries Under the Belt and Road Initiative 25. Iran's Look East Policy and the Energy Silk Road: The Energy Partnership of Iran and China 26. Navigating the Silk Road in Central and Eastern Europe PART IX: Europe 27. Towards a Shared Future: Upgrade of Strategic Partnership between China and Serbia within the BRI framework 28. Rethinking Italy-China Cooperation in the Belt and Road Initiative: The Communication's Impact in the Italian Case Study PART X: Conclusion 29. Conclusion: A Research and Policy Agenda for the Belt and Road Initiative