III.1. « Reconfiguring the silk road » New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity – The papers of a Symposium Held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, March 19, 2011 (Edited by Victor H. Mair and Jane Hickman)
III.2. « Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road, Strategy, Performance, and Risk » – par Çağri Haksöz, Sridhar Seshadri, Ananth V. Iyer – 2012 (by Taylor & Francis Group LLC)
III.3. « China’s Asian Dream » – par Tom Miller (Zed Boooks London – 2017)
III.4. « China’s Private Army – Protecting the New Silk Road » – par Alessandro Arduino (Palgrave Macmillan – 2018)
III.5. « China’s maritime silk road initiative and south asia, a Political Economic Analysis of its purposes, Perils, and Promise » (Edited by Jean-Marc F. Blanchard – Palgrave Studies in Asia-Pacific Political Economy – 2018)
III.6. « Investing in China and Chinese Investment Abroad » – par Xiuping Zhang et Bruce P. Corrie (Tsinghua University Press and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. – 2018)
III.7. « Rethinking the Silk Road » China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging Eurasian Relations (Edited by Maximilian Mayer – 2018)
III.8. « Lands of Lost Borders : out of Bounds on the Silk Road » par Kate Harris (published by Penguin Random House – Alfred A. Knopf – Canada – 2018)