Abstract
Officially announced by Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has since become the centrepiece of China’s economic diplomacy. It is a commitment to ease bottlenecks to Eurasian trade by improving and building networks of connectivity acrossCentral and Western Asia, where the BRI aims to act as a bond for the projects of regional cooperation and integration already in progress in Southern Asia.But it also reaches out to the Middle East as well as East and North Africa, a truly strategic area where the Belt joins the Road. Europe, the end-point of the New Silk Roads, both by land and by sea, is the ultimate geographic destination and political partner in the BRI.This report provides an in-depth analysis of the BRI, its logic, rationale and implications for international economic and political relations.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Belt and Road Initiative: A Game Changer? |
| Publisher | Edizioni Epoké srls |
| Pages | 121-140 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9788899647612 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |