Bringing together experts across the Global South and Europe, this book explores China's Belt and Road Initiative, and the crimogenic potential for economic, financial and socio-cultural cooperation across countries, where some are known for weak law enforcement and high levels of corruption.

Introduction; 1. One Belt, One Road and the Process of OBORization; Part A: China 1990 to 2018; 2. The Post-Tiananmen Decade: Prices Paid for China's Economic Growth; 3. Control of Grand Corruption and Triad Crime in China; 4. A Hardboiled Belt and Road: Backlash to the UN-Bribes-for-OBOR Scandals; Part B: Transnational Crime along the Belt and Road; 5. Transnational Crime in Asia: Illicit Markets and Innovation; 6. Crime, Corruption, and Collateral Damage: Large Infrastructure Projects as a Threat to Cultural Heritage; 7. Chinese Wildlife Trafficking Networks along the Silk Road; 8. Protected Wildlife on the One Belt, One Road: A Case Study of Illegal Tiger Skins Trade; Part C: Organized Crime and Corruption in OBOR Countries; 9. Organized Crime in Contemporary Russia; 10. Organized Crime in Kazakhstan; 11. Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Lithuania; 12. Organized Crime in the Czech Republic; 13. Organized Crime in Poland and its Control from a Central European Perspective; 14. Organized Crime and Corruption in Bangladesh; Conclusion; 15. The Possible Outcome of OBORization