This book explores a wide range of topics related to the policies and implementation of the BRI. The topics include the associated risks and challenges, new opportunities for multilateral cooperation, and approaches to promoting the BRI among participating countries. The book analyzes how people and governments in Russia, Egypt, Pakistan, the US, Malaysia, Turkey, Singapore, India and 22 other countries respond to the BRI, and BRI's impact on the dynamics of national, regional and global development.The book's chapters are based on papers presented at the "International Symposium of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Global Perspective", co-organized by the National Institute for Global Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Beijing Foreign Studies University in Beijing. A total of 39 experts from more than 30 countries have contributed to this book.