The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a political and economic mobilization that has become the most important aspect of China's presence abroad. While mainly involving thousands of investment and infrastructure projects in developing countries, the BRI has other aspects, including some that are geo-strategic. For that reason, the US has mounted an anti-BRI counter-mobilization that enlists allies, such as India and Japan, to attack the BRI as "Chinese neo-colonialism," a "Chinese debt trap," etc. The global controversy about the BRI has largely been uniformed by academic analysis, but after several years of practice, it is now possible to analyze it dimensions, significance and outcomes. This seminar will focus on discussing global and country case analyses of the BRI. Teams of students will also research and write a short paper on an aspect of the BRI of their own choice.