Professor B. R. Deepak (狄伯杰) was trained in Chinese history and India-China relations at the Peking University and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and University of Edinburgh, UK. He has been the Nehru and Asia Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. Dr. Deepak's publications include India and China: Foreign Policy Approaches and Responses (2016), India and China 1904-2004: A Century of Peace and Conflict (2005); India-China Relations in first half of the Twentieth Century (2001); India-China Relations: Future Perspectives (co ed. 2012);  India-China Relations: Civilizational Perspective (2012) China: Agriculture, Countryside and Peasants (2010); and Confucius Sukti Sangrah (The Analects of Confucius) (2016); The author has been a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Beijing Language University, China, Doon University, Dehradun India, and Teaching Fellow at the Scottish Centre of Chinese Studies in the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• 1. China’s global rebalancing: Will it reshape the International political and economic order? B.R. Deepak.- 2. Silk Road Cultures and the Silk Road Economic Belt Jiang Jingkui.- 3. Silk Road and Civilizational Connections between India and China:Role of the Buddhist Scholar Monks B. R. Deepak.- 4. The Belt and Road’ Initiative: Fundamental Principles, Content and Significance for Sino-Indian Relations Lan Jianxue.- 5. ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative: Building China-South Asian Security Community Yang Xiaoping.- 6. Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC): Security Dilemma Rider to Regional Economic Integration B. R. Deepak.- 7. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): A Game Changer for Pakistan’s Economy Ahmad Rashid Malik.- 8. China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): Regional cooperation in the wider South Asian region Siegfried O. Wolf.- 9.China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor: Opportunities and Challenges Sharad K. Soni.- 10. Contemporary Central Asia: Balancing between the Chinese and Japanese ‘Silk Road’ Diplomacy Mirzokhid  Rakhimov.- 11. India's Silk Road strategy: Can it meet China’s Belt and Road Initiative? Ajay Patnaik.- 12.“One Belt-One Road Initiative” and ASEAN Connectivity: Synergy Issues and Potentialities  Bruno Jetin.- 13. 21st Century‘Maritime Silk Road’ and Sino-Indian Maritime Cooperation Ouyang Guoxing.- 14. The Clash of Interests: Issues of the US Pivot to Asia and China’s Maritime Silk Road W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar.- 15. “One Belt, One Road”: China, US & Emerging Hegemonic Struggle in Asia Chintamani Mahapatra.- 16. Interrogating Competing Claims in South East Asia: The South China Sea or the West Philippine Sea Reena Marwah.- 17.Dealing with the risks of the Belt and Road Initiative Wang Yiwei.- 18. Emerging The Transition of the International Order and China’s Role Wang Honggang.