Six years after President Xi Jinping outlined the idea of the Silk Road economic belt during his visit to the University of Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan, followed a month later by the announcement of the construction of the twenty-first century maritime Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative has...

"This book explores the opportunities and challenges that both Europe and Asia face under the framework of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative. The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSR Initiative), put forward by the Chinese government together with the Silk Road Economic...