Julien Chaisse, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Advisory Board Member, Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL). His publications include China's International Investment Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2019), International Investment Treaties and Arbitration Across Asia (Brill/Nijhoff, 2017) and International Economic Law and Governance (Oxford University Press, 2016).Jędrzej Górski, Ph.D. (2016) is a research fellow and Ph.D. candidate in international relations at the City University of Hong Kong. Formerly research associate at UCL Australia (2017), Endeavour Research Fellow at MLS (2014) and associate at CMS (2010-2012).

"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand the Belt and Road Initiative and how it will define law, economics, and politics in the years to come." - Patrick W. Pearsall, Fmr. Chief of Investment Arbitration, United States of America"This is a big book on a very big subject. The editors have assembled informative and cogent essays on four broad aspects of the BRI. They are: the geopolitical dynamics that shape the BRI; the thrust of outward investment from China through the BRI; the facilitation of international trade in the BRI region; and the emerging mechanisms for dispute resolution and commercial mediation. Half of the chapters were published previously and deserve wider spread, and half are written new for this book. [..] Even discounting for inevitable hype about the BRI, this signature global initiative by China will likely be a very consequential feature of the emerging global economic system in the 21st century. If you want to get your mind around this massive project, this is the book you need to have in your hand. Highly recommend." - Glenn Shive Ph.D, Executive Director, Hong Kong America Center

• List of AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1IntroductionJulien Chaisse and Jędrzej GórskiPart 1: The Foundations of the Belt and Road Initiative2One Belt One Road (“obor”) Roadmaps: The Legal and Policy FrameworksDonald J. Lewis and Diana Moise3The Political Economy of obor and the Global Economic Center of GravityUsman W. Chohan4The obor Global Geopolitical Drive: The Chinese Access Security StrategyFrancisco José Leandro5It is Not the End of History: The Financing Institutions of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Bretton Woods SystemMaria Adele Carrai6Northern Sea Route: An Alternative Transport Corridor within China’s Belt and Road InitiativeVasilii Erokhin and Gao Tianming7The Effect of the “Belt and Road Initiative” on along Countries’ EmploymentLU Yue, JIA Yingqi and TU Xinquan8Challenges and possible responses of the Eurasian Economic Union to the Belt and Road InitiativeAlexander MikhaylenkoPart 2: Towards the Expansion of Chinese Outward Investment9What is One Belt One Road? A Surplus Recycling Mechanism ApproachUsman W. Chohan10The International Investment Agreement Network under the “Belt and Road” InitiativeAnna Chuwen Dai11Paving the Silk Road bit by bit: An Analysis of Investment Protection for Chinese Infrastructure \ Projects under the Belt & Road InitiativeLAI Huaxia and Gabriel M. Lentner12The Role of Chinese State-Owned Investors and obor-Related Investments in Europe: The Implication of the China-EU bitYIN Wei13National Security Review of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (‘fdi’) into the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (‘gcc’): Challenges and OpportunitiesBashar H. Malkawi and Joel Slawotsky14A Domestic National Controls a Foreign Investor in Investment Arbitration: In Light of China’s Negative ListsZHANG AnranPart 3: The International Trade Issues of the bri15“Unimpeded Trade” in Central Asia – A Trade Facilitation ChallengeJoanne Waters16One Belt, One Road Initiative into a New Regional Trade Agreement: Implication to the wto Dispute Settlement SystemSungjin Kang17bri Initiative: A New Model of Development Aid?Tymoteusz Chajdas18Turning doors – Piracy, Technology and Maritime security along the Maritime Silk RoadHelen Tung19Infrastructure Investments: Port, Rail, and International Economic RulesKarlok Carlos Li and Julien Chaisse20Development Banks as Environmental Governance Actors: The aiib’s Power to Promote Green GrowthFlavia Marisi21Stakes and Prospects of the Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent in ‘One Belt One Road’ Projects in the Context of Transnational Investment Law and ArbitrationAnna Aseeva and YIP Ka Lok22Central and Eastern Europe, Group 16+1 and One Belt One Road: The Case of 2016 Sino-Polish Comprehensive Strategic PartnershipJędrzej GórskiPart 4: bri Dispute Resolution: Directions for the Future23Some Considerations on the Civil, Commercial and Investment Dispute Settlement Mechanisms between China and the Other Belt and Road CountriesZHU Weidong24International Commercial Mediation, an Opportunity for oborGiovanni Matteucci25Energy Dispute Settlement and the One Belt One Road Initiative (‘obor’)MA Sai26The Energy Charter Treaty and Central Asia: Setting an International Standard for Energy-Related DisputesMaria Bun27Central Asian Investment Arbitration and obor – Learning from the Current Investment ClimateMariel Dimsey28China’s Maritime Silk Road and the Future of African ArbitrationAweis OsmanIndex

Julien Chaisse, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Advisory Board Member, Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL). His publications include China's International Investment Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2019), International Investment Treaties and Arbitration Across Asia (Brill/Nijhoff, 2017) and International Economic Law and Governance (Oxford University Press, 2016).Jędrzej Górski, Ph.D. (2016) is a research fellow and Ph.D. candidate in international relations at the City University of Hong Kong. Formerly research associate at UCL Australia (2017), Endeavour Research Fellow at MLS (2014) and associate at CMS (2010-2012).

"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand the Belt and Road Initiative and how it will define law, economics, and politics in the years to come." - Patrick W. Pearsall, Fmr. Chief of Investment Arbitration, United States of America"This is a big book on a very big subject. The editors have assembled informative and cogent essays on four broad aspects of the BRI. They are: the geopolitical dynamics that shape the BRI; the thrust of outward investment from China through the BRI; the facilitation of international trade in the BRI region; and the emerging mechanisms for dispute resolution and commercial mediation. Half of the chapters were published previously and deserve wider spread, and half are written new for this book. [..] Even discounting for inevitable hype about the BRI, this signature global initiative by China will likely be a very consequential feature of the emerging global economic system in the 21st century. If you want to get your mind around this massive project, this is the book you need to have in your hand. Highly recommend." - Glenn Shive Ph.D, Executive Director, Hong Kong America Center

• List of AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1IntroductionJulien Chaisse and Jędrzej GórskiPart 1: The Foundations of the Belt and Road Initiative2One Belt One Road (“obor”) Roadmaps: The Legal and Policy FrameworksDonald J. Lewis and Diana Moise3The Political Economy of obor and the Global Economic Center of GravityUsman W. Chohan4The obor Global Geopolitical Drive: The Chinese Access Security StrategyFrancisco José Leandro5It is Not the End of History: The Financing Institutions of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Bretton Woods SystemMaria Adele Carrai6Northern Sea Route: An Alternative Transport Corridor within China’s Belt and Road InitiativeVasilii Erokhin and Gao Tianming7The Effect of the “Belt and Road Initiative” on along Countries’ EmploymentLU Yue, JIA Yingqi and TU Xinquan8Challenges and possible responses of the Eurasian Economic Union to the Belt and Road InitiativeAlexander MikhaylenkoPart 2: Towards the Expansion of Chinese Outward Investment9What is One Belt One Road? A Surplus Recycling Mechanism ApproachUsman W. Chohan10The International Investment Agreement Network under the “Belt and Road” InitiativeAnna Chuwen Dai11Paving the Silk Road bit by bit: An Analysis of Investment Protection for Chinese Infrastructure \ Projects under the Belt & Road InitiativeLAI Huaxia and Gabriel M. Lentner12The Role of Chinese State-Owned Investors and obor-Related Investments in Europe: The Implication of the China-EU bitYIN Wei13National Security Review of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (‘fdi’) into the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (‘gcc’): Challenges and OpportunitiesBashar H. Malkawi and Joel Slawotsky14A Domestic National Controls a Foreign Investor in Investment Arbitration: In Light of China’s Negative ListsZHANG AnranPart 3: The International Trade Issues of the bri15“Unimpeded Trade” in Central Asia – A Trade Facilitation ChallengeJoanne Waters16One Belt, One Road Initiative into a New Regional Trade Agreement: Implication to the wto Dispute Settlement SystemSungjin Kang17bri Initiative: A New Model of Development Aid?Tymoteusz Chajdas18Turning doors – Piracy, Technology and Maritime security along the Maritime Silk RoadHelen Tung19Infrastructure Investments: Port, Rail, and International Economic RulesKarlok Carlos Li and Julien Chaisse20Development Banks as Environmental Governance Actors: The aiib’s Power to Promote Green GrowthFlavia Marisi21Stakes and Prospects of the Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent in ‘One Belt One Road’ Projects in the Context of Transnational Investment Law and ArbitrationAnna Aseeva and YIP Ka Lok22Central and Eastern Europe, Group 16+1 and One Belt One Road: The Case of 2016 Sino-Polish Comprehensive Strategic PartnershipJędrzej GórskiPart 4: bri Dispute Resolution: Directions for the Future23Some Considerations on the Civil, Commercial and Investment Dispute Settlement Mechanisms between China and the Other Belt and Road CountriesZHU Weidong24International Commercial Mediation, an Opportunity for oborGiovanni Matteucci25Energy Dispute Settlement and the One Belt One Road Initiative (‘obor’)MA Sai26The Energy Charter Treaty and Central Asia: Setting an International Standard for Energy-Related DisputesMaria Bun27Central Asian Investment Arbitration and obor – Learning from the Current Investment ClimateMariel Dimsey28China’s Maritime Silk Road and the Future of African ArbitrationAweis OsmanIndex

Julien Chaisse, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Advisory Board Member, Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL). His publications include China's International Investment Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2019), International Investment Treaties and Arbitration Across Asia (Brill/Nijhoff, 2017) and International Economic Law and Governance (Oxford University Press, 2016).Jędrzej Górski, Ph.D. (2016) is a research fellow and Ph.D. candidate in international relations at the City University of Hong Kong. Formerly research associate at UCL Australia (2017), Endeavour Research Fellow at MLS (2014) and associate at CMS (2010-2012).

"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand the Belt and Road Initiative and how it will define law, economics, and politics in the years to come." - Patrick W. Pearsall, Fmr. Chief of Investment Arbitration, United States of America"This is a big book on a very big subject. The editors have assembled informative and cogent essays on four broad aspects of the BRI. They are: the geopolitical dynamics that shape the BRI; the thrust of outward investment from China through the BRI; the facilitation of international trade in the BRI region; and the emerging mechanisms for dispute resolution and commercial mediation. Half of the chapters were published previously and deserve wider spread, and half are written new for this book. [..] Even discounting for inevitable hype about the BRI, this signature global initiative by China will likely be a very consequential feature of the emerging global economic system in the 21st century. If you want to get your mind around this massive project, this is the book you need to have in your hand. Highly recommend." - Glenn Shive Ph.D, Executive Director, Hong Kong America Center

• List of AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1IntroductionJulien Chaisse and Jędrzej GórskiPart 1: The Foundations of the Belt and Road Initiative2One Belt One Road (“obor”) Roadmaps: The Legal and Policy FrameworksDonald J. Lewis and Diana Moise3The Political Economy of obor and the Global Economic Center of GravityUsman W. Chohan4The obor Global Geopolitical Drive: The Chinese Access Security StrategyFrancisco José Leandro5It is Not the End of History: The Financing Institutions of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Bretton Woods SystemMaria Adele Carrai6Northern Sea Route: An Alternative Transport Corridor within China’s Belt and Road InitiativeVasilii Erokhin and Gao Tianming7The Effect of the “Belt and Road Initiative” on along Countries’ EmploymentLU Yue, JIA Yingqi and TU Xinquan8Challenges and possible responses of the Eurasian Economic Union to the Belt and Road InitiativeAlexander MikhaylenkoPart 2: Towards the Expansion of Chinese Outward Investment9What is One Belt One Road? A Surplus Recycling Mechanism ApproachUsman W. Chohan10The International Investment Agreement Network under the “Belt and Road” InitiativeAnna Chuwen Dai11Paving the Silk Road bit by bit: An Analysis of Investment Protection for Chinese Infrastructure \ Projects under the Belt & Road InitiativeLAI Huaxia and Gabriel M. Lentner12The Role of Chinese State-Owned Investors and obor-Related Investments in Europe: The Implication of the China-EU bitYIN Wei13National Security Review of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (‘fdi’) into the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (‘gcc’): Challenges and OpportunitiesBashar H. Malkawi and Joel Slawotsky14A Domestic National Controls a Foreign Investor in Investment Arbitration: In Light of China’s Negative ListsZHANG AnranPart 3: The International Trade Issues of the bri15“Unimpeded Trade” in Central Asia – A Trade Facilitation ChallengeJoanne Waters16One Belt, One Road Initiative into a New Regional Trade Agreement: Implication to the wto Dispute Settlement SystemSungjin Kang17bri Initiative: A New Model of Development Aid?Tymoteusz Chajdas18Turning doors – Piracy, Technology and Maritime security along the Maritime Silk RoadHelen Tung19Infrastructure Investments: Port, Rail, and International Economic RulesKarlok Carlos Li and Julien Chaisse20Development Banks as Environmental Governance Actors: The aiib’s Power to Promote Green GrowthFlavia Marisi21Stakes and Prospects of the Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent in ‘One Belt One Road’ Projects in the Context of Transnational Investment Law and ArbitrationAnna Aseeva and YIP Ka Lok22Central and Eastern Europe, Group 16+1 and One Belt One Road: The Case of 2016 Sino-Polish Comprehensive Strategic PartnershipJędrzej GórskiPart 4: bri Dispute Resolution: Directions for the Future23Some Considerations on the Civil, Commercial and Investment Dispute Settlement Mechanisms between China and the Other Belt and Road CountriesZHU Weidong24International Commercial Mediation, an Opportunity for oborGiovanni Matteucci25Energy Dispute Settlement and the One Belt One Road Initiative (‘obor’)MA Sai26The Energy Charter Treaty and Central Asia: Setting an International Standard for Energy-Related DisputesMaria Bun27Central Asian Investment Arbitration and obor – Learning from the Current Investment ClimateMariel Dimsey28China’s Maritime Silk Road and the Future of African ArbitrationAweis OsmanIndex