12–13 November 2018
Academic Conference Centre, Prague
15–16 November 2018
University of Constantine the Philosopher, Nitra
The conference analyzes the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) following the 40 years of transformation and opening of China. It focuses on the current role of China in a global context and its relations with other regions and macro-regions of the world, since 1978 especially with the USA and Western Europe, later with other parts of Asia and Central and Eastern Europe as well as with Africa and Latin America. The first two days of the conference are held in Prague, the next two days in Nitra, Slovakia. The conference is organized by the Centre for Global Studies IP CAS in Prague, Faculty of Arts at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, and Institute of Political Science at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava.