The Belt and Road Initiative

1. Front Matter

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2. The Belt and Road Initiative Concept

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The New Silk Roads: Defining China’s Grand Strategy

      • Tanguy Struye de Swielande, Dorothée Vandamme

      Pages 3-22

   3. The Words of the Belt and Road Initiative: A Chinese Discourse for the World?

      • Cátia Miriam Costa

      Pages 23-44

   4. Global Strike vs. Globalization: The US-China Rivalry and the BRI

      • Amit Gupta

      Pages 45-60

   5. Belt, Road and Ball: Football as a Chinese Soft Power and Public Diplomacy Tool

      • Emanuel Leite Junior, Carlos Rodrigues

      Pages 61-83

   6. Understanding China’s “One Belt and One Road” Initiative: An “International Public Goods” Approach

      • Li Xing, Zheng Xiaowen

      Pages 85-109

   7. The Financing of the Belt and Road Initiative: Blessings and Curses

      • Enrique Martínez-Galán

      Pages 111-147

   8. BRI—Sustainable, Inclusive Growth, and Financial Sources

      • Fernanda Ilhéu

      Pages 149-172

   9. Environmental Considerations of the Belt and Road Initiative

      • Richard Hardiman

      Pages 173-201

   10. The Chinese Partnerships and “the Belt and Road” Initiative: A Synergetic Affiliation

       • Yichao Li, Mário Barbosa Vicente

       Pages 203-235

3. The Belt and Road Initiative and the European Union

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. The Belt and Road Initiative: A New Platform in EU-China Cooperation?

      • Carmen Amado Mendes, Lorenzo Gagliano

      Pages 239-253

   3. Maritime Cooperation in the European Union-China Relations and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: What is at Stake?

      • Lívia Brasil Carmo Grault, Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira

      Pages 255-281

   4. EU Legal Obstacles to the Belt and Road Initiative: Towards a China-EU Framework on the Belt and Road Initiative

      • Sten Idris Verhoeven

      Pages 283-316

4. The Belt and Road Initiative and Latin America, North Atlantic, Central Europe and Central Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 317-317

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   2. Latin America and the Caribbean Bring the Western Hemisphere into the Belt and Road

      • Gretchen Small

      Pages 319-341

   3. China and the Great Urban Projects in Cabo Verde

      • Ivete Silves Ferreira, João Paulo Madeira

      Pages 343-362

   4. The Ultimate European Border: The Belt and Road Initiative Discovers Portugal

      • Francisco José B. S. Leandro, Paulo Afonso B. Duarte

      Pages 363-388

   5. China and the Portuguese Atlantic: The BRI’S Last Puzzle Piece

      • Jorge Tavares da Silva, Rui Pereira

      Pages 389-409

This book is an analysis of the developments associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) five years after Xi Jinping announced both the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the 21st Maritime Silk Road (21MSR). Together, these two dimensions constitute the B&RI, providing the so-called Chinese ‘project of the century’ with regional, inter-regional and global reach. This book aims at assessing the impact of the B&RI in all these dimensions and levels of influence. This is a current and promising theme, not only in the short and medium terms, but also within a broader timescale, reflecting Chinese strategic thinking itself, since Chinese philosophy and culture are oriented towards long-term and inter-generational perspectives. Likewise, both the title of this publication and the way it has been organized result from the empirical perception that China asserts a conservative attitude towards foreign affairs, redesigned in multiple dimensions, to create a perception of domestic unity and global prestige. In this vein of thought, the B&RI is already influencing and will continue to influence, directly or indirectly, the current economic and political order.

• New Silk Roads and China’s Grand Strategy
• Belt and Road Initiative form a German perspective
• EU Legal Obstacles to the Belt and Road Initiative
• China-EU Framework on the Belt and Road Initiative
• China´s Role in the International Climate Change Regime
• China’s outward direct investment (ODI) and BRI
• BRI Sustainable and Inclusive Growth and Finance Sources
• Financing of the Belt and Road Initiative
• Western Hemisphere and the BRI
• Latin America, the Caribbean, and BRI
• China’s Blue Economy Partnership
• the EU’s Blue Growth Strategy
• China’s “16 + 1” cooperation
• Central and Eastern Europe, and the BRI
• Poland and the BRI
• BRI and the Portuguese Speaking Countries
• China and the great urban projects in Cape Verde
• Multiplex regionalism in Central Asia
• Afghanistan and China’s Foreign Policy
• India’s Selective Participation in China’s BRI

• City University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

  Francisco José B. S. Leandro

• Research Centre in Political Science, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

  Paulo Afonso B. Duarte

Francisco B. S. José Leandro received a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the Catholic University of Portugal in 2010. He is currently an associate professor and Assistant Dean of the Institute for Research on Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the City University of Macau, China.


Paulo Afronso B. Duarte received a Ph.D. in political science from the Catholic University of Louvain. He is currently an assistant professor at Universidade Lusófona do Porto and guest professor at the University of Minho. He is a post-doctoral researcher at Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política, University of Minho, Portugal.

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