Dr Vijay Sakhuja is Director, National Maritime Foundation (NMF). He is also a visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore and before joining NMF, he was Director (Research) at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi. Ms Jane Chan is a Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Maritime Security Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her main research interests include maritime security issues in Southeast Asia, law and order at sea, regional maritime cooperation and confidence-building measures.

• Foreword, Abbreviations, Introduction; 1. Geopolitics of China's 'Maritime Silk Road' Concept: An Indian Perspective, 2. China's 'One Belt, One Road' Initiative: The Convergence of Strategic Interests and Domestic Imperatives, 3. Security Dimension of China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road : Indian Ocean Context, 4. Southeast Asian Responses to China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative, 5. The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: The Beijing Consensus Revisited from a South Asian Perspective, 6. China's Africa Push for Maritime Silk Road,7. The Idea of a Maritime Silk Road: History of an Idea, 8. Revisiting Maritime Past: Maritime Silk Road and Project Mausam, Index.