International Flows in the Belt and Road Initiative Context: Business, People, History and Geography

Recent Trends on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Research.- The Economics of the Belt and Road Initiative.- New research direction of the joint sea-and-land transportation of the Ningbo Port under the Belt and Road Initiative.- International Market Integration in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative.- Innovative Talent Development in Chinese Universities under the Belt and Road Initiative.- Opportunities and Risks along the New Silk Road: Perspectives and Perceptions on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.- Players or Spectators? Central Asia's Role in BRI.- China's Belt and Road Initiative and the South China Sea Disputes: Toward a New Mutual Deterrence Equilibrium.- The Making of the Finnish Polar Silk Road: Status in Spring 2019.- Between Adoption and Resistance: China's Efforts of 'Understanding the West', the Challenges of Transforming Monarchical Legitimacy and the Rise of Oriental Exceptionalism, 1860 to 1910.- Port City on the Maritime Silk Road: Ningbo's City Branding under the Theme of Intellectuals.- Desertification and its prevention along the route of China's Belt and Road Initiative.- International flows in the Belt and Road Initiative: The Future.