" State Transformation and Chinese Foreign Policy If we want to understand China's
international behaviour, we have to open the black box... State authority is fragmenting …

In this paper, we survey the expanding body of literature on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
in Chinese and Anglophone geography, and locate the main lines of development. The …

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such
as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two …

Abstract Five Southeast Asian countries (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines and
Malaysia) have experienced forest transitions, that is, a shift from net deforestation to net …

Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are described as
integrated and indivisible, where sustainability challenges must be addressed across …

At a time when the shortcomings of neoliberal development are well known, China's Belt
and Road Initiative offers both an opportunity and a requirement to revisit the question of a …

The introduction to this themed issue,'New Geographies of Development: Grounding China's
Global Integration', contributes to ongoing reconceptualization of research approaches to …

Mainstream portrayals of Chinese overseas land investments tend to treat Chinese capital
as monolithic, synonymous with the Chinese state, and extracting resources from other …

In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly
prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished" land-rich" …

This paper explores the intersections between two phenomena that have shaped eastern
Kachin State in Myanmar's northern borderlands with China since the late 1980s: the …