Cover
Table of Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgements
Florian Schneider
Figure 1.1 Extolling the virtues of the Belt and Road; screenshot of YouTube music video taken on 25 June 2020
Part I: Global Connectivity
Ingrid d’Hooghe
Michael Sampson, Jue Wang and Irma Mosquera Valderrama
Figure 3.1 Dominant drivers of China’s institutional approach by issue area
Part II: Regional Dynamics
Matt Ferchen
Stacey Links
Figure 5.1 Intra-regional Trade per Region (2015-2017)
Stacey Links
Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente
Figure 7.1 Interior of Trinidad’s National Academy for the Performing Arts during an event in January 2020, with the Queen’s Park Savannah and the hills of Port of Spain in the background
Part III: Local Actors
Frans-Paul van der Putten and Mirela Petkova
Table 8.1 Infrastructure projects in Indonesia with Chinese financial investment of at least US$1 billion initiated from 2013 to early 2020
Cheng-Chwee Kuik
Table 9.1 Laos, Malaysia, and Thailand’s BRI engagement with China
Figure 9.1 BRI-related projects in Laos, Malaysia, and Thailand
Matt Ferchen
Richard Ghiasy
Figure 11.1 India’s unique geographic centrality in South Asia
Mohammadbagher Forough
Sanne van der Lugt
Figure 13.1 The causal mechanism
Figure 13.2 The resulting causal mechanism
Contributors