Part1: Introduction
1. Making sense of the Belt and Road Initiative
Part2: BRI in Asia
2. South Korea response to the BRI: Hedging amidst change and continuity in the international system
3. The Belt and Road Initiative and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Interactions and Impact before and after COVID-19
4. Slippery Road Ahead: BRI, China and Southeast Asia amid COVID-19 Pandemic
5. Patterns of China’s BRI Ingress in South Asia: Implications for Regional Order
6. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Central Asia
7. China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Middle East and Iran
Part3: BRI in Europe
8. The End of China’s Affair with Central and East Europe
9. The European Union’s Response to the Belt and Road Initiative
Part4: BRI in Africa
10. BRI vs. AAGC, FOIP and Africa’s Agenda 2063
11. China-Africa Overseas Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone Project Cooperation: A Preliminary Evaluation
12. Worlds of work in the Belt and Road-Analysing dynamics of labour in Chinese enterprises in Africa
13. Examination of Chinese BRI projects in Africa: An Indian perspective
14. The Roads, the Belts, and the Contemporary International Political Economic System
Part5: Strategic overview
15. Financial sustainability of the Belt and Road Initiative before and after Covid-19
16. The Belt and Road Initiative as geostrategy
Part6: Conclusion
17. What have we learned from this collection?