China’s Global Reach : The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Volume II (Paperback)

Part I
The BRI/AIIB and China’s Global Reach

1 China’s Belt-Road Initiative as the Signature of President Xi Jinping Diplomacy: Easier Said than Done

2 In the Shadow of Strategic Rivalry: China, America, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Part II
The BRI/AIIB and China’s Domestic Politics

3 Fragmentation and Mobilization, Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road in China

4 Rhetorical legitimation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: evidence from Chinese state media

5 Beijing’s Pivot West: The Convergence of Innenpolitik and Aussenpolitik on China’s ‘Belt and Road’?

6 From “Lamb Kebabs” to “Shared Joy”: cultural appropriation, ignorance and the constrained connectivity within the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative                                 

7 Interwoven destinies: the significance of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to the China Dream, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Xi Jinping Legacy                   

Part III
International Responses to the BRI/AIIB

8 Problematic Prognostications about China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRT): Lessons from Africa and the Middle East

9 Beijing’s ‘Going Out’ Strategy and Belt and Road Initiative in the Sahel: The Case of China’s Growing Presence in Niger

10 Iran and the Belt and Road Initiative: Amid Hope and Fear

11 Domestic Politics as Fuel for China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The Case of the Gulf Monarchies

12 China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States: Lessons from the Case of Djibouti.

13 India’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB: Struggling for Relative and Absolute Gains