Mher Sahakyan Editor

Mher Sahakyan is an Asia Global Fellow of the Asia Global Institute of University of Hong Kong. He is the founder and director of the China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, foundation in Armenia. Mher Sahakyan also founded the annual international conference Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia. He is an elected advisory board member of the International Institute for Peace, Austria. Mher is also a member of British Association for Chinese Studies and International Political Science Association. Mher holds a doctorate in international relations from China’s Nanjing University and is a lecturer at the Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan State University and the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. He is the author of the book China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Armenia, which was published in Armenian and in Russian. He is also author of "The New Great Power Competition in Central Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for the Gulf", a contribution published in 2021 by the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in the United Arab Emirates. He is co-editor (with Heinz Gärtner) of China and Eurasia: Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order, which was published by Routledge in September 2021.