Csaba Moldicz is Head of the Center for International Economy at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation, Hungary. His main research area is the economic integration process of the European Union and China, with a special focus on the Central and Eastern European region. He has published several books as a senior editor and his monograph, China, the USA and Technological Supremacy in Europe published in 2020. He is an Associate Research Fellow of the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (Hungary) and the China- CEE Institute.

Through detailed case studies, commanding knowledge, and engaging analysis, Moldicz offers a sobering, yet rarely perceptive account of the complex, dynamic, and fast-moving target of Central European geopolitics. In a time of growing uncertainty and geopolitical rivalries, his timely book offers valuable, gripping, and illuminating insights of one of the key geostrategic locales in world affairs.

• 1. A Geopolitical Report on Central Europe 2. The Reluctant Player: Central Europe in U.S Foreign Policy3. The Newcomer in the Region: China 4. Russia and Germany5. The EU’s Struggles with the Region6. Central Europe’s Long-Term Interests7. A Summary and an Outlook References Index

Csaba Moldicz is Head of the Center for International Economy at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation, Hungary. His main research area is the economic integration process of the European Union and China, with a special focus on the Central and Eastern European region. He has published several books as a senior editor and his monograph, China, the USA and Technological Supremacy in Europe published in 2020. He is an Associate Research Fellow of the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (Hungary) and the China- CEE Institute.

Through detailed case studies, commanding knowledge, and engaging analysis, Moldicz offers a sobering, yet rarely perceptive account of the complex, dynamic, and fast-moving target of Central European geopolitics. In a time of growing uncertainty and geopolitical rivalries, his timely book offers valuable, gripping, and illuminating insights of one of the key geostrategic locales in world affairs.

• 1. A Geopolitical Report on Central Europe 2. The Reluctant Player: Central Europe in U.S Foreign Policy3. The Newcomer in the Region: China 4. Russia and Germany5. The EU’s Struggles with the Region6. Central Europe’s Long-Term Interests7. A Summary and an Outlook References Index