Focused on the Belt and Road Initiative this book discusses China's opportunities to translate
economic leverage into political outcomes. The central question is how China's expanding
economic influence will transform the Eurasian political landscape. Proposed in late 2013 by
President Xi Jinping the Belt and Road is the most ambitious foreign policy approach adopted
thus far and represents the culmination of China's search for a grand strategic narrative.
Comparative methods and diverse conceptual frameworks are applied to contextualize and explore
the political economic and cultural ramifications of the Belt and Road in order to shed light
on its transformative significance risks and opportunities.
