Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central … Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our … analysis based on the different strategies of Russia (dominance) and China (doing-business) towards the region and present the …

Since January 2014 China and the European Union (EU) have been negotiating a comprehensive bilateral investment … negotiations between China and the EU have received little public attention so far. Still, a successful conclusion of these … negotiations may be of great importance even beyond the EU-China investment relations. This holds in at least two respects. Firstly …