The Belt and Road Initiative offers valuable insights for understanding the BRI and its overall performance to date. It may be read with profit by anyone interested in Asian politics in general and particularly students across the social science disciplines who are eager to know more about the political, economic, and security implications of the BRI. The book provides an excellent grounding and foundation for understanding the economic, political, social, and cultural perspectives of the BRI.

Asian Affairs

The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific should interest academics and policymakers inside and outside the region. The book offers insightful up-to-date analyses and perspectives for understanding the BRIs implications (and challenges) in the years to come, and it zeroes in on important questions that remain unanswered.

International Journal of Asian Studies

In this study of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the contributors consider the extent to which the project could succeed in establishing a 'China-centric order' in Asia and what it means for regional security. The authors suggest that China is likely to be satisfied with the way the BRI is disrupting existing economics and strategic alignments in the Indo-Pacific.

Survival: Global Politics and Strategy

“Comprehensive in scope, this timely volume will be essential reading for anyone who needs to understand China's Belt and Road Initiative and its global implications. Not only does it offer insights into Beijing's interests and actions across continental and maritime Eurasia, but it provides expert analysis about how China's most important neighbors, from India and Australia to Russia and Egypt, are likely to respond. All told, it raises worrisome questions about China's new role in the global order and the waning of American leadership.”

Daniel Markey, Johns Hopkins University

“This volume represents perhaps the latest and most comprehensive analysis of the implications of BRI for an changing Indo-Pacific—geopolitics and security, political economy, and more pertinently, the region’s key players who are at once seeking to benefit from greater connectivity and growing prosperity through trade and investment, and guard against the potential risks of power transition and intensifying rivalry. It addresses the most critical question of whether, and to what extent, BRI is affecting the norms, structure, and processes of an emerging regional order in a post-America world."

Jingdong Yuan, University of Sydney

“Bringing together a collection of the top experts watching Chinese foreign policy, The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific is a hugely insightful primer on the Belt and Road's ongoing and evolving impact across Asia.”

Raffaello Pantucci, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies