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"This book discusses Special Economic Zones and how they play the role of development enablers in different regions, development states and institutional settings, with the goal of boosting trade and contributing to a future improvement of development indicators."

1. The New Silk Roads: Defining China's Grand Strategy -- 2. The words of the Belt & Road Initiative: a Chinese discourse for the world? -- 3. Global Strike vs. Globalization: The US-China - Rivalry and the BRI -- 4. Belt, Road and Ball: football as a Chinese soft power and public diplomacy tool -- 5. Understanding China's "One Belt and One Road" Initiative: an "International Public Goods" Approach -- 6. The financing of the Belt and Road initiative: blessings and curses -- 7. BRI Sustainable and Inclusive Growth and Finance Sources -- 8. Environmental considerations of the Belt and Road Initiative -- 9. The Chinese partnerships and "the Belt and Road" initiative: a synergetic affiliation -- 10. The Belt and Road Initiative - A New Platform in EU-China Cooperation? -- 11. Maritime Issues in the EU-China Strategic Partnership against the backdrop of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road -- 12. EU Legal Obstacles to the Belt and Road Initiative: Towards a China-EU Framework on the Belt and Road Initiative -- 13. Latin America and the Caribbean Bring the Western Hemisphere into the Belt and Road -- 14. China and the Great Urban Projects in Cabo Verde -- 15. The ultimate European border: The Belt and Road discovers Portugal -- 16. China and the Portuguese Atlantic: The BRI´s last puzzle piece -- 17. Assessing China's "16 + 1 Cooperation" with Central and Eastern Europe: A Public Good Perspective -- 18. Germany's attitude towards the BRI – the impact of non-state actors on German foreign policy towards China -- 19. New Silk Road and Prospects for Turkey -- 20. Afghanistan and the Belt and Road Initiative -- 21. How Russia faces China in Eurasia: more than meets the eye?.

This handbook offers readers various perspectives on globalization and multilateralism with Chinese characteristics. Its originality is derived from the hybrid approaches the handbook takes, where chapters provide complementary, intertwined, and multi-level analysis on the topic. Based on contributions of scholars and practitioners from a number of countries, the handbook helps readers to comprehend ongoing debates on the Belt and Road Initiative and global governance, within a shifting balance of world power, characterized by competing views between Western and Chinese norms, standards, values, and narratives. Split into three Parts, and consisting of 45 chapters, the handbook views globalization as comprehensive concept that benefits from the contributions of various disciplines such as geography, geo-economics, political science and international relations. In producing one of the most ambitious and updated outputs on the topic, the handbook as a whole seeks to discuss what globalization with Chinese characteristics looks like, and the role of the Belt and Road Initiative in this process

The authors approach is innovative as it establishes a direct comparison between the post-independence developments of Cabo Verde, So Tom and Prncipe and Timor-Leste. As the book is written from a small island developing states perspective, it undoubtedly contributes important lessons and information to the existing literature on this special category of developing states. Gerhard Seibert, PsAfro, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil. This book provides new perspectives on three of the smallest Lusophone states. It fills a gap in academic knowledge about SIDS and further offers innovative insights into the specificity of being a Portuguese-speaking small island state. The combination of an economic, political and social approach in a diachronic perspective, allows the reader to have a complete understanding of the contemporary history of these countries. Each chapter offers a number of selected questions, which are designed to encourage academic debate, and to support researchers and students. Ctia Miriam Costa, Instituto Universitrio de Lisboa (ISCTE), Lisbon, Portugal. This book assesses the dynamics, challenges and achievements of the development processes of three Portuguese-speaking Small Island Developing States (PSSIDS) - Cabo Verde, So Tome and Prncipe, and Timor-Leste. Important lessons are drawn from those processes, which are relevant for policymakers, as well as for their bilateral and multilateral development partners, including international organizations such as United Nations or the Community of Portuguese Language Countries. To that end, the book includes contributions to the academic literature about SIDS, an area of research that has been significantly overlooked. The conclusions would be of interest to readers as a lead up to the fiftieth anniversary of their independence. Francisco Jos B.S. Leandro is Associate Professor with Habilitation at Faculty of Social Sciences - University of Macau, China. Enrique Martnez-Galn is an integrated researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies - ISEG-Lisbon School of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Paulo Gonalves is an independent researcher and a retired senior officer of the Portuguese Air Force, Portugal.

This book assesses Iran's role in contemporary geopolitics. In particular, it examines three main intertwining circles: Iran's development and political challenges, its relationships with neighbouring countries, as well as its relations with the major global powers — China, the European Union, Russia, and the United States. With contributions from over 20 authors, the book spans such critical aspects of contemporary geopolitics as modern history, natural resources, the economy, the social-political context, and strategic thinking. Particular focus is placed on Iran's relations with its neighbours - Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, and the Persian Gulf States. Furthermore, the book offers both a bilateral and multilateral dimension on how nuclear sanctions imposed on Iran have impacted its strategic planning, from the economic and military perspectives. Francisco Leandro received a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the Catholic University of Portugal (2010). He is currently Associate Professor and Assistant-Dean of the Institute for Research on Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the City University of Macau, China. His most recent books include Steps of Greatness: The Geopolitics of OBOR (2018), The Belt and Road Initiative: An Old Archetype of a New Development Model (2020, Palgrave MacMillan). He is a member of the OBSERVARE Lisbon, Portugal. Carlos Branco is a retired Major General of the Portuguese Army. He was Director of the War College Security and Defense Research Centre, Portugal. He is currently a researcher with the Portuguese Institute of International Relations, and an associate researcher with the National Defense Institute. His most recent book is From the End of the Cold War to Trump and COVID-19: Betrayed Promises of the Liberal Order (2020, Edições Colibri). Flavius Caba-Maria is President of the think tank, the Middle East Political and Economic Institute (MEPEI) in Bucharest, Romania. He has organised numerous international conferences, summer schools, and international seminars, through which current subjects and the main issues of the Middle East and its impact on Europe and relations with China have been discussed and debated.

This handbook offers readers various perspectives on globalization and multilateralism with Chinese characteristics. Its originality is derived from the hybrid approaches the handbook takes, where chapters provide complementary, intertwined, and multi-level analysis on the topic. Based on contributions of scholars and practitioners from a number of countries, the handbook helps readers to comprehend ongoing debates on the Belt and Road Initiative and global governance, within a shifting balance of world power, characterized by competing views between Western and Chinese norms, standards, values, and narratives. Split into three Parts, and consisting of 45 chapters, the handbook views globalization as comprehensive concept that benefits from the contributions of various disciplines such as geography, geo-economics, political science and international relations. In producing one of the most ambitious and updated outputs on the topic, the handbook as a whole seeks to discuss what globalization with Chinese characteristics looks like, and the role of the Belt and Road Initiative in this process.