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September 26, 2023 | Jessica DiCarlo | Forum
The BRI, Grounded
A decade on, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has left an indelible mark on the global landscape and international public debate. A search on Google Scholar reveals a staggering 56,700 articles featuring the term ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, while 32,300 reference its previous moniker, ‘One Belt One Road’…
September 26, 2023 | Cecilia Springer | Forum
A Decade of Environmental Change
Ten years ago, China launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to achieve economic and diplomatic objectives while also providing valuable infrastructure finance to other developing countries. As the world’s largest infrastructure-led development initiative, the BRI has inevitably reshaped the physical e…
September 26, 2023 | Elia Apostolopoulou | Forum
The Urban Geographies of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Here, in the new town, boredom is pregnant with desires, frustrated frenzies, unrealized possibilities. A magnificent life is waiting just around the corner, and far, far away. It is waiting like the cake is waiting when there’s butter, milk, flour and sugar. This is the realm of freedom. It is an empty re…
September 11, 2023 | Igor Rogelja | Forum
(In)visible BRI
In infrastructure studies, it has become almost a cliché to say that ‘infrastructure is invisible’, especially when it works as designed. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is primarily a platform dedicated to the construction of infrastructure, yet invisibility is not what first comes to mind. The ribbon-…
September 11, 2023 | Hong Zhang | Forum
How the BRI Changed China
The rapidly expanding volume of global scholarship on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has largely focused on the external impacts of this unprecedented initiative, be they geopolitical, economic, socio-spatial, environmental, historical-cultural, or conceptual, as highlighted in the other contributions …
September 11, 2023 | Jordan Lynton Cox | Forum
Towards a Diasporically Grounded Global-China Analytic
The past decade has seen a swell of economic, political, and social commentary throughout academia and the media on the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Much of this discourse reifies and reduplicates existing geopolitical biases by describing the BRI as either an ideal model of South–South co…
September 11, 2023 | Han Cheng | Forum
Towards a Three-dimensional Analysis of the BRI
The first decade of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has inspired a diverse range of research agendas and case studies regarding China’s deepening global integration, rapidly expanding across disciplines, topics, and geographical boundaries. In this contribution, I survey the growing body of Chinese and …
September 11, 2023 | Jessica DiCarlo | Forum
A Decade of the Belt and Road Initiative
September 2023 marks 10 years since Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced the notion of a New Silk Road, which would eventually come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In the past decade, more than 150 countries have signed on to the initiative, with varying degrees of engagement. The BRI…