Infrastructures of Logistics

Massive investments in ports, highways, railway connections and submarine cables will not only bring to life China’s dream of a new Silk Road, but also lay the infrastructural groundwork for an interregional integration of the Eurasian continent and beyond. While material and financial aspects of this integration process have reached an impressive magnitude and are in the focus of media attention, this subproject examines a less noticed aspect: the Chinese influence on ideas of space and on spatial planning procedures in selected countries, which may dictate the long-term territorial transformation potential of such infrastructures of logistics. What specific concepts and spatial practices such as “corridorization” are emerging? Is there a transfer of alternative forms of territorial and regulatory statecraft derived from China’s modernity? How does China’s participation in the planning and construction of gigantic infrastructures and new urban centers worldwide shape the spatial dimensions of a newly emerging political order on the one hand, and novel capitalist constellations of connectivity on the other?


Lead

Team

Former Employees

Avatar Lu

Yen-Chi Lu

Avatar Mayer

Maximilian Mayer

Avatar Dragoljević

Nikola Dragoljević

Visiting Fellows

Avatar Chen

Xiangming Chen

Avatar Lu

Chuanying Lu

Avatar Zhang

Xin Zhang

Publications

The Belt and Road Initiative at 10 and Corridor Connectivity
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From the Middle Out and Bottom Up: The Belt and Road Initiative at 10 and Corridor Connectivity

Xiangming Chen

The World Financial Review, 18 August, 2023

China’s Bifurcated Space Diplomacy and Institutional Density
© The Hague Journal

China’s Bifurcated Space Diplomacy and Institutional Density

Maximilian Mayer & Kunhan Li

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 18 (2023), 1-29

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China’s Engagement in Africa: Activities, Effects and Trends

Maximilian Mayer, Xuewu Gu et al.

Global Focus, Center for Global Studies, 2022

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Theorizing China-world integration: sociospatial reconfigurations and the modern silk roads

Maximilian Mayer and Xin Zhang

Review of International Political Economy, 28 (4), 974-1003, 2021

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Belt and Road Cities begin to find their form

Maximilian Mayer and Simon Curtis

CIDOB Opinion, No. 630, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, 2020

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Rethinking the Silk Road. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging Eurasian Relations

Maximilian Mayer (Ed.)

Springer Singapore 2018

Recorded Events

#DFS2023 Geopolitik, Technologie und die Zukunft der deutsch-chinesischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen

#DFS2023 Geopolitik, Technologie und die Zukunft der deutsch-chinesischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen

25 May, 2023 | Deutsches Forum Sicherheitspolitik, The Federal Academy for Security Policy & CASSIS

Standards und Staatskapitalismus – Chinas Rolle bei der Setzung internationaler Normen

Standards und Staatskapitalismus – Chinas Rolle bei der Setzung internationaler Normen

Infinite Expanses? The Politics of China's Space Science and Technology

Infinite Expanses? The Politics of China's Space Science and Technology

10 May, 2023 | Lecture Series China – The New Science Superpower?, Berlin Contemporary China Network

„China in der deglobalen Konstellation“, Dialog mit Heinz Bude

„China in der deglobalen Konstellation“ - Dialog mit Heinz Bude

14 November, 2022 | „Streit ums Politische - Krieg und Frieden“, Schaubühne Berlin

Chinesische Globalisierung und moderne Metropolen

Chinas ökonomischer Fußabdruck in Europa und die Zukunft der EU-China Beziehungen

24 February, 2022 | Dialogue Series Understanding China's Modernity - European Reflections

Chinesische Globalisierung und moderne Metropolen

Chinesische Globalisierung und moderne Metropolen

20 January, 2022 | Dialogue Series Understanding China's Modernity - European Reflections

China als entwicklungspolitisches Gegenmodell: historische und globale Perspektiven

China als entwicklungspolitisches Gegenmodell: historische und globale Perspektiven

18 November, 2021 | Dialogue Series Understanding China's Modernity - European Reflections

Further Events

Roundtable What is Global China?
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What is Global China?

Roundtable | 24 October, 2023

There are few who would question that China is a key international actor that can affect processes and outcomes from Mekong to the Moon. The roundtable at the Jagiellonian University Kraków, in which Prof. Dr Maximilian Mayer participated as a discussant, tried to find answers to questions around "Global China".

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