Rethinking the Silk Road

1. China’s Rise as Eurasian Power: The Revival of the Silk Road and Its Consequences
Maximilian Mayer

2. The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the Leading Function of the Shipping Industry
Hu Zhang

3. Connectivity and International Law in the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
Guobin Zhang, Yu Long

4. Special Economic Zones: Integrating African Countries in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Alexander Demissie

5. Connectivity and Regional Integration: Prospects for Sino-Indian Cooperation
Darshana M. Baruah, C. Raja Mohan

6. Africa in the Maritime Silk Road: Challenges and Prospects
Junbo Jian

7. The Belt and Road Initiative and Comprehensive Regionalism in Central Asia
Ikboljon Qoraboyev, Kairat Moldashev

8. The New Silk Road for China and Japan: Building on Shared Legacies
Yang Jiang

9. Knowledge-Based Institutions in Sino-Arctic Engagement: Lessons for the Belt and Road Initiative
Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, Ping Su

10. Chinese Investments in European Countries: Experiences and Lessons for the “Belt and Road” Initiative
Philippe Corre

11. Former Empires, Rising Powers: Turkey’s Neo-Ottomanism and China’s New Silk Road
Nora Fisher Onar

12. Knowing the World: International and Chinese Perspectives on the Disciplinarization of Country and Area Studies
Chunchun Hu

13. Modern Silk Road Imaginaries and the Co-production of Space
Maximilian Mayer, Dániel Balázs

14. Berlin Looking Eastward: German Views of and Expectations from the New Silk Road
Wolfgang Röhr

15. The Geopolitical Significance of Sino-Russian Cooperation in Central Asia for the Belt and Road Initiative
Enrico Fels

16. Changing International System Structures and the Belt and Road Initiative
Chuanxing Wang

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Asian Politics, Governance and Government, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Asian Economics