Yuan Li is a Professor for Business and Economic Studies of East Asia in the Mercator School of Management and Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST), University of Duisburg-Essen, GermanyMarkus Taube is a Professor of East Asian Economic Studies/China and Director of the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies at the Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

• Introduction: The Belt & Road Initiative - Manifestations, Driving Forces and International Responses - Yuan Li & Markus Taube, Section I. The logic of the BRI and its domestic economic impacts, 1. China’s rejuvenation and the Belt and Road Initiative - Justin Yifu Lin, 2. Motivations, actors, and implications for the New Silk Road trains - Mario Esteban & Yuan Li, 3. Can the Belt and Road Initiative promote the catching-up of China's West and South-West? - Giovanni Ferri, Li-Gang Liu, Camilla Mastromarco & Laura Serlenga, 4. "The Belt and Road" Initiative will promote economic cooperation between China and Western countries - Chen Yongjun, Section II. BRI and it impact on the structure of global economic interaction, 5. AIIB and the reform of international financial system - Xun Wang, 6. Commodity structure of trade between China and the B&R countries and its implications for RMB internationalization - Yibing Ding, Qianwen Shen & Xiao Li, 7. One Belt One Road Initiative and China’s Overseas Direct Investment - Julan Du & Yifei Zhang, 8. The new dynamics of multilateral cooperation mechanisms in East Asia—China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and Japan’s partnership for quality infrastructure - Werner Pascha, Section III. The impact of the BRI on regional cooperation, 9. The Belt and Road Initiative: A hybrid model of regionalism - Andreas Grimmel & Yuan Li, 10. Bridging westward to open the gates of Europe. Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia and Belarus - Maria Danilovich, 11. New Political cartography of Eurasia: China's Belt and Road-Initiative—The Eurasian Economic Union—India's New Silk Road - Nele Nösselt, 12. "Belt and Road Initiative" and the new China-EU relations - Xieshu Wang, Joël Ruet & Xavier Richet, 13. International relations and New Silk Road-BRI. European Union and China crucial roles - Giorgio Dominese

Yuan Li is a Professor for Business and Economic Studies of East Asia in the Mercator School of Management and Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST), University of Duisburg-Essen, GermanyMarkus Taube is a Professor of East Asian Economic Studies/China and Director of the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies at the Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

• Introduction: The Belt & Road Initiative - Manifestations, Driving Forces and International Responses - Yuan Li & Markus Taube, Section I. The logic of the BRI and its domestic economic impacts, 1. China’s rejuvenation and the Belt and Road Initiative - Justin Yifu Lin, 2. Motivations, actors, and implications for the New Silk Road trains - Mario Esteban & Yuan Li, 3. Can the Belt and Road Initiative promote the catching-up of China's West and South-West? - Giovanni Ferri, Li-Gang Liu, Camilla Mastromarco & Laura Serlenga, 4. "The Belt and Road" Initiative will promote economic cooperation between China and Western countries - Chen Yongjun, Section II. BRI and it impact on the structure of global economic interaction, 5. AIIB and the reform of international financial system - Xun Wang, 6. Commodity structure of trade between China and the B&R countries and its implications for RMB internationalization - Yibing Ding, Qianwen Shen & Xiao Li, 7. One Belt One Road Initiative and China’s Overseas Direct Investment - Julan Du & Yifei Zhang, 8. The new dynamics of multilateral cooperation mechanisms in East Asia—China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and Japan’s partnership for quality infrastructure - Werner Pascha, Section III. The impact of the BRI on regional cooperation, 9. The Belt and Road Initiative: A hybrid model of regionalism - Andreas Grimmel & Yuan Li, 10. Bridging westward to open the gates of Europe. Implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia and Belarus - Maria Danilovich, 11. New Political cartography of Eurasia: China's Belt and Road-Initiative—The Eurasian Economic Union—India's New Silk Road - Nele Nösselt, 12. "Belt and Road Initiative" and the new China-EU relations - Xieshu Wang, Joël Ruet & Xavier Richet, 13. International relations and New Silk Road-BRI. European Union and China crucial roles - Giorgio Dominese