The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly

Published by the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program

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The Alashankou Border Crossing, Xinjiang, PRC. Photo courtesy of ERINA, Japan.

About the Journal

The China and Eurasia Forum is an independent forum which seeks to bring together regional experts, academics, government policy makers, and business leaders with an interest in the growing relationship between China and Eurasia. The forum is affiliated to the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program - a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center of Johns Hopkins University and the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy. Focusing primarily on Sino-Central Asian, Sino-Russian, and Sino-Caucasian relations, the goal of this website and the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly is to foster discussion and information sharing between a geographically distant community that recognizes the significance of China's emergence in this important part of the world. This new homepage was made possible with the generous support of the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet)

Current Issue

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Special Issue: Central Asian Perceptions of China

Guest Editors: Marlene Laruelle and Sebastien Peyrouse

China’s rise to power in the Central Asian space constitutes a driving force of social change. Cultural apprehensions, although difficult to measure, are a key area of international relations: the functioning and evolution of the world system are shaped by local representations of it. To shed new light on China-Central Asia relations, the guest-editors of this special issue have chosen to cast a more in-depth look at perceptions of China in Central Asia juxtaposing sociological and international relations approaches. The issue features contributions by Ablat Khodzhaev, Konstantin Syroezhkin, Sadykzhan Ibraimov, Saodat Olimova, Amantur Zhaparov, as well as Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse.

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Latest news

SCO heads of state summit in Russia Tuesday, 16 June 2009 16:08

On June 15-16, the annual heads of state summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was held in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The most significant announcement so far is that China has offered an additional $10 billion in budget support to the faltering Central Asian economies. This follows a similar $10 billion grant to Kazakhstan in April and a $1 billion package of economic assistance to Tajikistan in early June. Major attention was also devoted to the situation in Afghanistan. The attendees of the summit included the heads of the SCO member states (China, Russia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan), representatives from observer states, and the Afghan president.

IMF Director visits Central Asia Monday, 15 June 2009 00:00

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Mr. Strauss Kahn, arrived in Kazakhstan on June 15 to discuss how Kazakhstan can weather the financial crisis and in what way IMF can support these efforts. Strauss-Kahn will also visit Uzbekistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan as part of his Central Asia tour.

CSTO signs collective rapid response forces agreement Sunday, 14 June 2009 00:00

On June 14, leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization signed an agreement on estabilishing Collective Rapid Response Forces. According to earlier reports, the CRRF and its military arm will total between 10000 to 15000 troops. The heads of state of Uzbekistan, Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan attended the summit. The President of Belarus boycotted the summit following recent tensions between Moscow and Minsk.

Events

Sino-Russian Relations in Central Asia and Beyond Sino-Russian Relations in Central Asia and Beyond Sunday, 19 April 2009 11:21

 

Conference Washington D.C., 6-7 May, 2009, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University. China is today rapidly entrenching its presence throughout the Eurasian continent and in the post-Soviet space. Meanwhile, a resurgent Russia is seeking to preserve this space as its exclusive sphere of influence. These clashing interests have so far been mitigated by the shared ambition of balancing U.S. unipolarity and preventing its engagement in the wider Central Asian region. How will Sino-Russian relations unfold in context of this geopolitical uncertainty? This conference seeks to bring together scholars specializing on Sino-Russian relations to address the current status of this relationship, its historical drivers, and implications for the future.

The conference is co-organized with the Departments of Russia and Eurasian Studies, China Studies, and the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, together with the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy and University of Louisville.

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Current Issue

Editor-in-Chief

  • Niklas Swanstrom

Managing Editor
  • Nicklas Norling

Associate Managing Editor

  • Christopher Len

News-digest Editor

  • Tina Kavadze

Senior Advisors

  • Daniel L. Burghart
  • Svante Cornell
  • David M. Finkelstein
  • Pan Guang
  • Bates Gill
  • Zhao Huasheng
  • James A. Millward
  • Matthew Oresman
  • S. Frederick Starr
  • Farkhod Tolipov
  • Dmitri V. Trenin