The Belt & Road initiative in the global arena : Chinese and European perspectives This book is among the first to systematically analyze and discuss the Chinese governments One Belt One Road initiative to promote infrastructure investment and economic development bringing together a diverse range of scholars from China Russia and Eastern Europe. The book assembles a package of next generation ideas for the patterns of regional trade investment infrastructure development or next steps for the promotion of enhanced policy coordination across the Eurasian continent and strategic implications for EU Russia and other major powers introducing innovative ideas about what these countries across belt and road can do together in the eyes of the young generation. This book will be of interest to scholars economists and interested observers of the international impact of Chinese development