China's Belt and Road Initiative: Changing the Rules of Globalization

1. Introduction; Ilan Alon, Wenxian Zhang and Christoph Lattemann.- Part I. Contextual Overview of the Belt & Road Initiative.- 2. China and the 21st Century Silk Roads: A New Era of Global Economic Leadership?; Francis Schortgen.- 3. The Global Strategic Environment of BRI: Deep Interdependence and Structural Power; Thomas D. Lairson.- 4. One Belt, One Road, One World: Where Is the US Business Connectivity?; Xiaohua Yang, Don Lewis, Steve Roddy, and Diana Moise.- Part II. Regional and Geopolitical Perspectives.- 5. Free-Trade Agreements as the BRI Steppingstone for Multilateralism: Is the Sino-Swiss FTA the Gold Standard?; Tomas Casas Klett and Serrano Oswald.- 6. Belt, Road, and Circle: The Arctic and Northern Europe in China's Belt and Road Initiative; Camilla T. N. Sørensen.- 7. China's Strategy toward Central and Eastern Europe within the Framework of the Group 16+1: The Case of Poland; Jedrzej Górski.- 8. The Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Central Asia: Building New Relations in a Reshaped Geopolitical Scenario; Fabio Indeo.- 9. Live and Let Live: Africa's Response Options to China's BRI; Emmanuel Kodzi.- 10. Small State, Smart Influence: China's Belt and Road extended to New Zealand; Jake Lin.- Part III. International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and BRI.- 11. Teh Overall Development of the Belt and Road Countries: Measurement, Ranking and Assessment; Biliang Hu, Qingzhong Pan and Shuyu Wu.- 12. Effects of the Trade Facilitation Measures on Trade between China and Countries along the Belt and Road Initiative; Juan Zhang and Wuzhou Hong.- 13. How the Belt and Road Initiative Affects China's Outward FDI: Comparing Chinese Independent Firms and Business Group Affiliates; Ping Lv, Chenxi Guo and Xuchang Chen.- 14. Competitive Advantages of China's Agricultural Exports in Terms of the Outward-Looking Belt & Road Initiative; Vasilii Erokhin and Gao Tianming.- Part IV. Financial, Legal and Cultural Perspectives of BRI.- 15. The Role of China's Sovereign Wealth Funds in President Xi Jinping's Ambitious Belt and Road Initiative; Stephen Thomas and Ji Chen.- 16. The Changing Rules of International Dispute Resolution in China's Belt and Road Initiative; Jingzhou Tao and Mariana Zhong.- 17. Globalization 5.0 Led by China: Powered by Positive Frames for BRI; May Hongmei Gao.- 18. Final Reflections; Christoph Lattemann, Ilan Alon and Wenxian Zhang.