Alfred Gerstl is a specialist on International Relations in Southeast Asia. Since 2019 he holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic).Ute Wallenböck is a postdoctoral researcher for the EU-funded "Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges" project at Palacký University Olomouc, and assistant professor for Chinese Studies at Masaryk University, Brno, both in the Czech Republic.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Making Analytic Sense of the Belt and Road Initiative: A Plea for Multi- and Trans-Disciplinary Approaches and Eclecticism Chapter 2: The Belt and Road Initiative Post-April 2019: Plus Ca Change! Chapter 3: Thoughts on Appropriate Approaches to Studying BRI’s Actual Impacts and Limits Chapter 4: The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative and Its Impact on Democratization and De-Democratization Processes Chapter 5: China’s Faltering Normative Power Drive in Kazakhstan Chapter 6: Malaysia and China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Triology of Commitment Problem, Diplomacy, and Strategic Foreign Policy Chapter 7: Chinese Grand Strategy and the Belt and Road Initiative: The case of Southeast Asia Chapter 8: The BRI, Logistics, and Global Infrastructure: New World Order, the Game of Go, and the Dispositif of Shi Chapter 9: China and the USA in Central Asia: Competing Actors with Different Goals? Chapter 10: Rail Development Potential in Asia in the Frame of the Belt and Road Initiative: What Market? Chapter 11: From Railway Dreams to a Reality Check: Achievements and Challenges of Sino-Polish Relations at the Local Level – The Case of Łódźkie–Sichuan Partnership Chapter 12: Economic (Policy) Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative for Central, East, and Southeast Europe

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