The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China's ambitious re-mapping of globalisation. This book focuses on the multi-national perspectives of BRI with an underlying observation that BRI's geo-politically driven economic development approach exhibits significant differences from the US and European precedents of the previous centuries.

Section I. Background 1. Re-imagining the Silk Road for the 21st Century 2. BRI from within China: Vision, Rationale, and the "Corridors". 3. BRI from within China: Mechanisms, Institutions, and Media Representations. Section II. International Context, analysis and outcome 4. Urban Development Challenges under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) 5. Inter-continental transport networks and Asian Economic Corridor for the Korean Peninsula 6. Establishing BRI in Thailand: Contrasting "desire lines" in the delivery of two high-speed rail projects 7. Malaysia: Chinese participation in infrastructure from contractor to conspirator? 8. China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Cambodia 9. The Production of Megaprojects in Java: Colonialism, Nationalism, Development Centralisation Vs Decentralisation 10. Belt and Road Initiative in Iran: Urban-Regional Dialogue in Two Corridors and Three Cities 11. The Critical Need for Urban Planning around Port Vila's BRI Projects 12. Ethiopia: The Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway 13. Strengthening Brazil's food system: can China's Belt and Road help? 14. Challenges and Opportunities to Port Development with BRI in Japan Section III. Comparative perspectives: a bottom-up approach 15. International Perspectives of the BRI: New, Unfolding Globalisation