China and the Belt and Road Initiative

Introduction.- Section 1: Theoretical overview of China and BRI relations.- Narrating Models of Development - China and the EU between ‘Strategic Modernizer’ and ‘Rules-based Transformer’.- Challenges and Opportunities in the EU-China Trade Relations.- From ‘International Relations’ to ‘Global Foreign Policy’ – examining the new framework of Chinese strategic relations through the BRI.- Section 2: BRI collaboration through the business sector.- In Fear of the Trojan Horse? China’s Cross-Border Acquisitions in Europe amid the One-Belt-One-Road Initiative.- Unwary dreams, rude awakenings: BRI in the developing world and emerging Europe.- Towards a Win-Win EU-China Bilateral Investment Treaty: Challenges and Prospects.- Section 3: Country case studies.- Russia–China Collaboration Under Pressure From the West: The Russian Perspective.- EU–China – failed prospects of win-win partnership.- On the role of the Belt & Road Initiative and the 17+1 cooperation within the Sino-European relation.- A test-case for Europe: Sino-Italian relations in the ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Cold War.- Commercial relations between Italy and China from the past to the future.