Foreword / by Thanos Dokos -- Introduction: The Belt and Road and EU international relations policy and law / Vassilis Ntousas and Stephen Minas -- The Belt and Road Initiative as China's approach to global governance : implications for China-EU relations and economic cooperation / Yun Zhao and...

"There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, over a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental...

Policy action is driven, shaped and regulated by the ways in which cognitive frames and interests shape and define issues and analyses - and the involvement of particular authorities, experts, problem-definitions and solutions. To understand these processes is particularly important in the realm...