Demystifying Chinese overseas investment in infrastructure: Port development, the Belt and Road Initiative and regional development

Z Liu, S Schindler, W Liu - Journal of Transport Geography, 2020 - Elsevier
China's outward investment has increased tremendously in recent years and it is currently a
global leader in the construction of transportation infrastructure. While its signature 'Belt and …

The opening of the Transpolar Sea Route: Logistical, geopolitical, environmental, and socioeconomic impacts

MM Bennett, SR Stephenson, K Yang, MT Bravo… - Marine Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
With current scientific models forecasting an ice-free Central Arctic Ocean (CAO) in summer
by mid-century and potentially earlier, a direct ship** route via the North Pole connecting …

The geopolitics of infrastructuralized platforms: The case of Alibaba

H Shen, Y He - The Geopolitics of Chinese Internets, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Contemporary digital platforms have become increasingly infrastructuralized, and started to
raise geopolitical tensions with their global expansion. Amidst the heightened geopolitical …

From traditional infrastructure to new infrastructure: a new focus of China's Belt and Road Initiative diplomacy?

C Zhang, M Zhang, C ** Chinese Diplomacy: Relational contradictions and spatial tensions
F McConnell, CY Woon - Geopolitics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper maps out contemporary discourses of Chinese diplomacy that have proliferated
under the aegis of 'major country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics'. We examine how …

[HTML][HTML] Overseas warehouse deployment for cross-border e-commerce in the context of the belt and road initiative

C Liu, J Wu, H Lakshika Jayetileke - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The development of cross-border e-commerce is generally faced with problems such as
high freight, long transportation time, and low service level. However, overseas warehouses …

[HTML][HTML] From contractual flexibility to contractor's cooperative behavior in construction projects: the multiple mediation effects of ongoing trust and justice perception

H Song, J Hou, S Tang - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The flexible contract is an important mechanism for owners to govern contractors in
construction projects. Given the limited explanatory power of the justice mechanism and the …

The making of post‐post‐soviet Ruins: Infrastructure development and disintegration in contemporary Russia

MM Bennett - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Western journalists and photographers fetishize the infrastructural ruination of the former
Soviet Union. While sites like abandoned railway stations are assumed to be artefacts of the …

The political geography of economic nationalism

N Koch - Handbook of Economic Nationalism, 2022 - elgaronline.com
This chapter surveys the key political geography concepts that underpin the diverse
expressions of economic nationalism across the world and through different historical …

Infrastructure diplomacy and strategic signalling within the Three Seas Initiative

G Grgić, Đ Kolar, M Bašić - Southeast European and Black Sea …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Different manifestations of infrastructure diplomacy have been used as a prime example of
how major powers dissatisfied with their position in the international system have been …