The Belt and Road Initiative

Francisco B. S. José Leandro received a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the Catholic University of Portugal in 2010. He is currently an associate professor and Assistant Dean of the Institute for Research on Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the City University of Macau, China. Paulo Afronso B. Duarte received a Ph.D. in political science from the Catholic University of Louvain. He is currently an assistant professor at Universidade Lusófona do Porto and guest professor at the University of Minho. He is a post-doctoral researcher at Centro de Investigação em Ciência Política, University of Minho, Portugal.

1. The New Silk Roads: Defining China’s Grand Strategy.- 2. The words of the Belt & Road Initiative: a Chinese discourse for the world?.- 3. Global Strike vs. Globalization: The US-China - Rivalry and the BRI.- 4. Belt, Road and Ball: football as a Chinese soft power and public diplomacy tool.- 5. Understanding China’s “One Belt and One Road” Initiative: an “International Public Goods” Approach.- 6. The financing of the Belt and Road initiative: blessings and curses.- 7. BRI Sustainable and Inclusive Growth and Finance Sources.- 8. Environmental considerations of the Belt and Road Initiative.- 9. The Chinese partnerships and “the Belt and Road” initiative: a synergetic affiliation.- 10. The Belt and Road Initiative - A New Platform in EU-China Cooperation?.- 11. Maritime Issues in the EU-China Strategic Partnership against the backdrop of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.- 12. EU Legal Obstacles to the Belt and Road Initiative: Towards a China-EU Framework on the Belt and Road Initiative.- 13. Latin America and the Caribbean Bring the Western Hemisphere into the Belt and Road.- 14. China and the Great Urban Projects in Cabo Verde.- 15. The ultimate European border: The Belt and Road discovers Portugal.- 16. China and the Portuguese Atlantic: The BRI´s last puzzle piece.- 17. Assessing China’s “16 + 1 Cooperation” with Central and Eastern Europe: A Public Good Perspective.- 18. Germany’s attitude towards the BRI – the impact of non-state actors on German foreign policy towards China.- 19. New Silk Road and Prospects for Turkey.- 20. Afghanistan and the Belt and Road Initiative.- 21. How Russia faces China in Eurasia: more than meets the eye?.