Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA, and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.

Introduction: The BRI and AIIB as China's New Global Strategy: Motivations, Domestic Politics and International Responses Part I: Geopolitics and Geo-economic Motivations behind the BRI/AIIB 1. Motivation behind China's 'One Belt, One Road' Initiatives and Establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 2. The One Belt One Road and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Beijing's New Strategy of Geoeconomics and Geopolitics 3. Beyond Balancing: China's approach towards the Belt and Road Initiative 4. Could 'Belt and Road' be the Last Step in China's Asian Economic Integration? 5. Strategic Reassurance in Institutional Contests: Explaining China's Creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 6. China's Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative: Network and Influence Formation in Central Asia Part II: China's Domestic Politics and the BRI 7. The Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road Initiative and its Implications 8. Overseas Port Investment Policy for China's Central and Local Governments in the Belt and Road Initiative Part III: Responses from Foreign Partners 9. Regional Responses to China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative in Southeast Asia 10. The Political Economy of a Rising China in Southeast Asia: Malaysia's Response to the Belt and Road Initiative 11. Myanmar's Role in China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative 12. Deconstructing the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: pipe dreams versus geopolitical realities