Stekić, Nenad (2024) Analysing Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between China and Serbia: Political, Economic, and military-technical relations. In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations. Routledge, London, pp. 214-227. ISBN 978-1032-573-76-2
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This chapter analyses the contemporary bilateral relationship between China and Serbia in the context of the deepening polarisation of international politics and the emergence of a Multipolar World Order 2.0. More than a decade ago, Serbia adopted a multivectoral foreign policy orientation which, in addition to China, included strategic cooperation with the EU, United States, and Russia. Today, Serbia is faced with the challenge of redefining its strategic balancing amidst geopolitical shifts and growing tensions. Despite being the only European country that has not imposed sanctions on Russia, Serbia has achieved an “ironclad friendship” with China, as described by both its leaders, while also aspiring to join the EU and maintaining good relations with the United States. China’s continuous international support for Serbia’s most pressing security problem, the international status of Kosovo recognition, implies its strategic choices that are beginning to take the shape of hedging. Therefore, this chapter focuses on China’s political, economic, and military cooperation with one of the closest allies in Europe – Serbia. Besides deploying the concept of strategic choices of small states and analysis of potential Serbia’s hedging, the author examines the evolution and impact of Sino-Serbian strategic cooperation for Serbia’s foreign policy preferences in the context of the changed security architecture in Eurasia and the competing interests of many emerging great powers in an era of a new multipolarity.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Depositing User: | Ana Vukićević |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2025 08:47 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2025 08:47 |
| URI: | http://repozitorijum.diplomacy.bg.ac.rs/id/eprint/1455 |
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