Acknowledgements
This twenty-eight-chapter book, exploring issues in law, economics and politics of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) comprises an introduction, sixteen previously published articles and eleven original chapters. The idea for this book was planted in September 2016 when we offered working on a special journal issue tentatively titled “China’s One Belt, One Road: Economic Changes, Power Shifts and Prospects/Consequences for the World of Arbitration” to the Transnational Dispute Management Journal (TDM). We invited Manzoor Ahmad, Manjiao Chi and Teresa Cheng to the editorial board of that TDM special issue. The call for papers was released in January, most of the papers submitted in June and the special issue released in October 2017. We are very grateful to the co-editors for their co-operation, efficient review of articles and invaluable comments made during that process. We also thank TDM editor-in-chief Mark Kantor for accepting our initial proposal. In the meantime, we invited a number of original, mostly economic and political papers to add to the selection of mostly legal TDM articles in order to combine them in this multi-disciplinary book. We are very grateful to Maris B.V. for agreeing to the use of that material, and Maris’ editorial team for coordinating their efforts with contributors and with the editorial team of Brill Nijhoff.
Julien Chaisse & Jędrzej Górski
Hong Kong, May 2018