"Wer den Aufstieg Chinas und die daraus folgenden politischen, wirtschaftlichen und geostrategischen Konsequenzen verstehen will, wird an diesem Buch nicht vorbeikommen. Kenntnisreich und interessant geschrieben, bietet es wertvolle Einsichten in Entwicklung, Gegenwart und Zukunftsaussichten...

The contributions compiled in this issue engage in critical evaluation of China's "New Silk Road initiative" ("Belt and Road Initiative" [BRI]) by focusing on the potential long-term political and economic effects and implications for Sino-EUropean and Sino-African relations. The authors take...

The politics of contestation on the part of secondary regional powers such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela towards Brazil as the regional leader oscillate between competition and cooperation, inasmuch as the South American region has one regional power and is a zone of negative peace...

Is the West finished as a political idea? In recent years, observers have begun pointing to signs that this transatlantic community is eroding. When the European Union expanded, the classic European nation state was in decline. Now, nationalism is on the rise. Furthermore, nations within the EU...