The Rise of the Infrastructure State

How US-China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2078-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh interpretation of the territorial logic of US-China rivalry, and explores what it means for countries across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America. The chapters demonstrate that many countries navigate the global infrastructure boom by articulating novel spatial objectives and implementing political and economic reforms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schindler, Seth

DiCarlo, Jessica

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bayirbag, Mustafa Kemal

Camba, Alvin

Cruz, Jerik

Lim, Guanie

DeBoom, Meredith

Enns, Charis

Bersaglio, Brock

Luhula, Masalu

Gyuris, Ferenc

Huang, Zhengli

Goodfellow, Tom

Jepson, Nicholas

Kimari, Wangui

Lesutis, Gediminas

Klinger, Julie Michelle

Chwee, Kuik Cheng

Liao, Jessica C.

Neafie, Jessica

Paudel, Dinesh

Rankin, Katharine

Rolf, Steven

Saguier, Marcelo

Tang, Dorothy

Tritto, Angela

Abdilashimova, Farzana

Ingalls, Micah

Vila Seoane, Maximiliano

Shamshiev, Ulan

Silaban, Mary

Steenberg, Rune

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Geopolitics, Infrastructure, and the Emergent Geographies of US–China Competition - Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler
Part I: Grounding Infrastructural Rivalry
2. Mediating the Infrastructure State: The Role of Local Bureaucrats in East Africa’s Infrastructure Scramble - Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, and Masalu Luhula
3. Roads, Debt, and Kyrgyzstan’s Quest for Geopolitical Kinship - Rune Steenberg, Ulan Shamshiev, and Farzana Abdilashimova
4. Chinese Investment Meets Zambian Policy: The Planning and Design of Multifacility Economic Zones in Lusaka - Dorothy Tang
5. Infrastructure as Symbolic Geopolitical Architecture: Kenya’s Megaprojects and Contested Meanings of Development - Wangui Kimari and Gediminas Lesutis
Interlude: The Emergence of a Sino-Centric Transnational Capitalist Class? - Steve Rolf
Part II: Infrastructural Governance and State Restructuring
6. Contradictory Infrastructures and Military (D)Alliance: Philippine Elite Coalitions and Their Response to US–China Competition - Alvin Camba, Jerik Cruz, and Guanie Lim
7. Infrastructure-Led Development with Post-Neoliberal Characteristics: Buen Vivir, China, and Extractivism in Ecuador - Nicholas Jepson
8. Centralizing Infrastructure in a Fragmenting Polity: China and Ethiopia’s ‘Infrastructure State’ - Zhengli Huang and Tom Goodfellow
9. Radioactive Strategies: Geopolitical Rivalries, African Agency, and the Longue Durée of Nuclear Infrastructures in Namibia - Meredith J. DeBoom
10. Argentina and the Spatial Politics of Extractive Infrastructures under US–China Tensions - Marcelo I. Saguier and Maximiliano F. Vila Seoane
11. Turkey Between Two Worlds: EU Accession and the Middle Corridor to Central Asia - Mustafa Kemal Bayirbag and Seth Schindler
12. Multipolar Infrastructures and Mosaic Geopolitics in Laos - Jessica DiCarlo and Micah Ingalls
Interlude: Locating Host-Country Agency and Hedging in Infrastructure Cooperation - Cheng-Chwee Kuik
Part III: Geopolitics and State Spatial Strategies
13. Himalayan Geopolitical Competition and the Agency of the Infrastructure State in Nepal - Dinesh Paudel and Katharine Rankin
14. Indonesia’s ‘Beauty Contest’: China, Japan, the US, and Jakarta’s Spatial Objectives - Angela Tritto, Mary Silaban, and Alvin Camba
15. Vietnam’s Spatial and Hedging Strategies in Response to Chinese and Japanese Infrastructural Statecraft - Jessica C. Liao
16. Diversifying Dependencies? Hungary, the EU, and the Multifaceted Geopolitics of Chinese Infrastructure Investments - Ferenc Gyuris
17. 'No One Stole Anyone Else’s Cheese’: The Politics of Infrastructural Competition in Kazakhstan - Jessica Neafie
18. Outer Space Infrastructures - Julie Klinger
19. Conclusion: 21st-Century Third Worldism? - Seth Schindler and Jessica DiCarlo

Über Autor(innen)

DiCarlo, Jessica
Jessica DiCarlo is the Chevalier Junior Chair Postdoctoral Fellow in Transportation and Development in China at the University of British Columbia’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.

Schindler, Seth
Seth Schindler is Senior Lecturer in Urban Development and Transformation at the University of Manchester.

Seth Schindler is Senior Lecturer in Urban Development and Transformation at the University of Manchester.
Jessica DiCarlo is the Chevalier Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Transportation and Development in China at the Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, at the University of British Columbia.