"The book explores how technological competition is linked to the geopolitical contest between the US and China, and why Europe and the European Union (EU) have become involved in this competition for technological supremacy. China's political and economic rise, the concurrent US withdrawal from...

Introduction / Mher D. Sahakyan -- Eurasia between multipolarity and multilateralism / Heinz Gärtner -- Building a community with a shared future for mankind : the new international vision of the Chinese development model / Yuntian Zheng -- China's digital Silk Road and Eurasian Economic Union...

Introduction : Making analytically sense of the Belt and Road Initiative : a plea for multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches and eclecticism / Alfred Gerstl and Ute Wallenböck -- The Belt and Road Initiative post-April 2019 : plus ça change! / Vijay Nambiar -- Thoughts on appropriate...

An integrative framework : power, interests, status and global responses -- China and the evolution of the AIIB -- AIIB in comparative perspectives -- Asia-Pacific participation in the AIIB -- European participation in the AIIB -- Countries shunning the AIIB -- Conclusion: Crouching tiger,...

An integrative framework : power, interests, status and global responses -- China and the evolution of the AIIB -- AIIB in comparative perspectives -- Asia-Pacific participation in the AIIB -- European participation in the AIIB -- Countries shunning the AIIB -- Conclusion: Crouching tiger,...

Responses to the Belt and Road Initiative : a regional perspective / Jonathan Fulton -- Localizing China's global silk Roads through the "17+1" / Emilian Kavalski -- China's BRI in South Asia : unique characteristics and general framework / Jabin T. Jacob -- Central Asia in BR I: policy-taker or...

Introduction -- Developmental states : a conceptual overview -- Singapore Inc. -- Hong Kong : administrative developmental state -- Becoming smart cities -- Conceptual and theoretical implications -- The smart developmental state