China's Belt and Road Initiative

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

Wenxian Zhang is a member of Rollins College faculty, and a recipient of the Cornell Distinguished Faculty Service Award, as well as an Arthur Vining Davis Fellow. His recent books include China Visualized by Americans and The Entrepreneurial and Business Elites of China.

Ilan Alon is Professor of Strategy and International Marketing at the University of Agder, Norway, and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Emerging Markets and European Journal of International Management. Previously, he was visiting scholar at Georgetown University, Harvard University and both the University of International Business and Economics and JiaoTong University in China. Ilan is the President of the Chinese Globalization Association and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 30 books including China Rules: Globalization and Political Transformation.

Christoph Lattemann is Professor of Business Administration and Information Management at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. He is the Director of the Jacobs Center for the Research on China and Globalization, Vice-Director of the Confucius Institute Bremen, and Vice President of the Chinese Globalization Association. Previously a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Stanford University, Christoph has published over 150 scientific publications and ten books. He is currently senior editor for the International Journal of Emerging Markets.

"The book is a fine collection of papers, well put together and with a general thematic coherence. In fact, the anthology is thought-provoking, well-researched and good read. For those researching international business, political science, international relations, foreign direct investment, development studies, and Chinese economics, the book is an excellent addition to the growing literature on the the BRI ." (Saleh Shahriar, Intellectual discourse, Vol. 27 (1), 2019) "A veritable cornucopia of a research agenda for IB scholarship." (Peter J Buckley, Journal of International Business Studies, November 28, 2019)