Dispute Settlement and the Belt and Road Initiative

This book presents a response to the numerous calls for instituting a rules-based approach in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) dispute resolution. The theoretical framework developed here builds a case that the BRI is a demonstration of China’s growing use of “soft power” and that BRI dispute settlement consequently operates on the basis of a “power-based” approach. The work analyses what a rules-based approach to dispute resolution means, explores what the BRI actually is, and what BRI disputes a