Responses to the Belt and Road Initiative : a regional perspective / Jonathan Fulton -- Localizing China's global silk Roads through the "17+1" / Emilian Kavalski -- China's BRI in South Asia : unique characteristics and general framework / Jabin T. Jacob -- Central Asia in BR I: policy-taker or...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was created to address political and security issues. Over time, the economy has taken center stage and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is going to be launched in 2015. The AEC is a milestone promoting ASEAN economic integration and...

Why is Asia lagging behind other regions in creating regional judicial institutions? What lessons from the operation of such institutions elsewhere could be valuable to Asian regional economic integration? I show that Asian states are not unusually averse to refer inter-state disputes over...