| Article Title | Author |
| An Analysis of ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative and the Middle East | Anu Sharma |
| Strategic Development of Sino-GCC Relations: Visions of Arabian Gulf Economic Development and the Belt and Road Initiative | Mahmood Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar |
| The Turbulent Middle East: Analysing Security Issues facing China’s Belt and Road Initiative towards the Region | Henelito A. Sevilla |
| China-Turkey Security Cooperation Under the Background of the ‘Belt and Road’ and the ‘Middle Corridor’ Initiatives | Ahmet Faruk Isik & Zhiqiang Zou |
| Sino-Turkish Tourism Cooperation under the Framework of the Belt and Road Initiative | Song Niu & Nianci Li |
| The Multiple Roles of Egypt in China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative | Mahmoud Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Soliman & Jun Zhao |
| The Role of Islam in the Development of the ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative | Fuquan Li |
| Article Title | Author |
| The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the context of China’s opening-up policy | Hideo Ohashi |
| The Belt and Road Initiative – the New Silk Road: a research agenda | Man Hung Thomas Chan |
| Patterns and views of China’s public diplomacy in ASEAN countries: focusing on Confucius Institutes | Motoko Shuto |
| Unpacking Sino-Central Asian engagement along the New Silk Road: a case study of Kazakhstan | Assel G. Bitabarova |
| The Belt and Road Initiative depicted in Hungary and Slovakia | Tamas Matura |
| Poland’s perspective on the Belt and Road Initiative | Patrycja Pendrakowska |
