Introduction : Making analytically sense of the Belt and Road Initiative : a plea for multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches and eclecticism / Alfred Gerstl and Ute Wallenböck -- The Belt and Road Initiative post-April 2019 : plus ça change! / Vijay Nambiar -- Thoughts on appropriate approaches to studying BRI's actual impacts and limits / Yu-Wen Chen -- The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative and its impact on democratization and de-democratization processes / Wolfram Schaffar -- China's faltering normative power drive in Kazakhstan / Gaziza Shakhanova and Jeremy Garlick -- Malaysia and the Belt and Road Initiative : balancing between economic utility and diplomatic expediency / Farizal Mohd Razalli -- Chinese grand strategy and the Belt and Road Initiative : the case of Southeast Asia / Tanguy Struye de Swielande and Kimberly Orinx -- The BRI, logistics, and global infrastructure : new world order, the game of go and the dispositif of shi / Joyce C.H. Liu -- China and the USA in Central Asia : competing actors with different goals? / Alica Kizeková -- Rail development potential in Asia in the frame of the Belt and Road Initiative : what Market? / Frédéric Lasserre, Eric Mottet and Linyan Huang -- From railway dreams to reality check : achievements and challenges of Sino-Polish relations at the local level : the case of Łódź-Sichuan partnership / Bartosz Kowalski -- Economic (policy) implications of the Belt and Road Initiative for Central, East and Southeast Europe / Julia Grübler and Robert Stehrer.

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