This book is a concerted theorizing by Western and Chinese researchers what the implications of China's One Belt, One Road policy might be, lodging the planning and construction of corridors, harbors, railroads and other infrastructure in generative analytical research questions and empirical puzzles.The modern Silk Road raises many crucial questions for world politics and European-Chinese relations: how are global governance and the build up of financial, transport and communication infrastructures linked? Will the far-reaching ambitions and new institutions eventually translate into a more Sino-centric world? What is the role of regions, great powers and new forms of multilateralism in the shaping of a new global order? What cultural imaginations will enable and which intellectual boundaries might prohibit Sino-European cooperation? This book begins to provide answers.