Table of Contents

1. China's Rise as a Eurasian Power: The Revival of the Silk Road and Its Consequences2. The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the Leading Function of the Shipping Industry3. Connectivity and International Law in the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road4. Special Economic Zones: Integrating African Countries in China's Belt and Road Initiative5. Connectivity and Regional Integration: Prospects for Sino-Indian Cooperation6. Africa in the Maritime Silk Road: Challenges and Prospects7. The Belt and Road Initiative and Comprehensive Regionalism in Central Asia8. The New Silk Road for China and Japan: Building on Shared Legacies9. Knowledge-based Institutions in Sino-Arctic Engagement - Lessons for the Belt and Road Initiative10. Chinese Investments in European Countries: Experiences and Lessons for the "Belt and Road Initiative"11. Former Empires, Rising Powers: Turkey's Neo-Ottomanism and China's New Silk Road12. Knowing the World: International and Chinese Perspectives On the Disciplinarization of Country and Area Studies13. Modern Silk Road Imaginaries and the Coproduction of Space14. Berlin Looking Eastward: German Views of and Expectations From the New Silk Road15. The Geopolitical Significance of Sino-Russian Cooperation in Central Asia16. Changing International System Structures and the Belt and Road Initiative

About the Author

Maximilian Mayer is a research professor at the German Studies Center of Tongji University,China. He is co-editor of the two-volume The Global Politics of Science and Technology and Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics. His research interests include the global politics of technoscience and innovation, China's foreign and energy policy, global climate politics, and International Relations theories.