The Belt and Road Initiative: Law, Economics, and Politics

List of Abbreviations 
List of Figures and Tables 
Notes on Contributors 

1 Introduction 
  Julien Chaisse and Jędrzej Górski 

Part 1: The Foundations of the Belt and Road Initiative

2 One Belt One Road (“ obor ”) Roadmaps: The Legal and Policy Frameworks 
  Donald J. Lewis and Diana Moise 
3 The Political Economy of obor and the Global Economic Center of Gravity 
  Usman W. Chohan 
4 The obor Global Geopolitical Drive: The Chinese Access Security Strategy 
  Francisco José Leandro 
5 It is Not the End of History: The Financing Institutions of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Bretton Woods System 
  Maria Adele Carrai 
6 Northern Sea Route: An Alternative Transport Corridor within China’s Belt and Road Initiative 
  Vasilii Erokhin and Gao Tianming 
7 The Effect of the “Belt and Road Initiative” on along Countries’ Employment 
  LU Yue, JIA Yingqi and TU Xinquan 
8 Challenges and possible responses of the Eurasian Economic Union to the Belt and Road Initiative 
  Alexander Mikhaylenko 

Part 2: Towards the Expansion of Chinese Outward Investment

9 What is One Belt One Road? A Surplus Recycling Mechanism Approach 
  Usman W. Chohan 
10 The International Investment Agreement Network under the “Belt and Road” Initiative 
  Anna Chuwen Dai 
11 Paving the Silk Road bit by bit : An Analysis of Investment Protection for Chinese Infrastructure \ Projects under the Belt & Road Initiative 
  LAI Huaxia and Gabriel M. Lentner 
12 The Role of Chinese State-Owned Investors and obor -Related Investments in Europe: The Implication of the China-EU bit 
  YIN Wei 
13 National Security Review of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (‘ fdi ’) into the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (‘ gcc ’): Challenges and Opportunities 
  Bashar H. Malkawi and Joel Slawotsky 
14 A Domestic National Controls a Foreign Investor in Investment Arbitration: In Light of China’s Negative Lists 
  ZHANG Anran 

Part 3: The International Trade Issues of the bri

15 “Unimpeded Trade” in Central Asia – A Trade Facilitation Challenge 
  Joanne Waters 
16 One Belt, One Road Initiative into a New Regional Trade Agreement: Implication to the wto Dispute Settlement System 
  Sungjin Kang 
17 bri Initiative: A New Model of Development Aid? 
  Tymoteusz Chajdas 
18 Turning doors – Piracy, Technology and Maritime security along the Maritime Silk Road 
  Helen Tung 
19 Infrastructure Investments: Port, Rail, and International Economic Rules 
  Karlok Carlos Li and Julien Chaisse 
20 Development Banks as Environmental Governance Actors: The aiib ’s Power to Promote Green Growth 
  Flavia Marisi 
21 Stakes and Prospects of the Right to Free, Prior & Informed Consent in ‘One Belt One Road’ Projects in the Context of Transnational Investment Law and Arbitration 
  Anna Aseeva and YIP Ka Lok 
22 Central and Eastern Europe, Group 16+1 and One Belt One Road: The Case of 2016 Sino-Polish Comprehensive Strategic Partnership 
  Jędrzej Górski 

Part 4: bri Dispute Resolution: Directions for the Future

23 Some Considerations on the Civil, Commercial and Investment Dispute Settlement Mechanisms between China and the Other Belt and Road Countries 
  ZHU Weidong 
24 International Commercial Mediation, an Opportunity for obor 
  Giovanni Matteucci 
25 Energy Dispute Settlement and the One Belt One Road Initiative (‘ obor ’) 
  MA Sai 
26 The Energy Charter Treaty and Central Asia: Setting an International Standard for Energy-Related Disputes 
  Maria Bun 
27 Central Asian Investment Arbitration and obor – Learning from the Current Investment Climate 
  Mariel Dimsey 
28 China’s Maritime Silk Road and the Future of African Arbitration 
  Aweis Osman 

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