How can established powers manage the peaceful rise of new great powers? With The
Struggle for Recognition in International Relations, Michelle Murray offers a new answer to …

As economic power diffuses across more countries and China becomes more dependent on
the world economy, Chinese leaders are being forced to abandon their largely passive …

Moscow has progressively replaced geopolitics with geoeconomics as power is recognised
to derive from the state's ability to establish a privileged position in strategic markets and …

This article argues that Beijing's ambitious 'Belt and Road Initiative'(BRI) is driven by the
convergence of Innenpolitik and Aussenpolitik motivations including a desire: to …

In the last several years, both Russia and China have launched ambitious regional projects
that are promoted as a means to strengthen linkages with neighbouring states. The Eurasian …

Russia and China have been pursuing the Eurasian Economic Union and the One Belt, One
Road initiative since the early 2010s, employing two distinct sets of practices in their …

The aim of this article is to explore the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century
Maritime Silk Road–presumably a gigantic economic project launched by China–for better …

In recent years, some Chinese elites have started to rethink the strategies and tactics of
China's rise on the global stage. Some scholars see the problems in the West as strategic …

That Russia, a declining power, has emerged as the most assertive challenger to the US-led
global order, while China, the most dynamic rising power, has largely worked within the …

Image-building has been an important goal of China's foreign policy. Humanitarian
diplomacy provides a useful instrument to build a benign international image, given the …