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The Belt and Road City

Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China’s Search for a New International Order
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The Belt and Road City offers an exploration of how the Belt and Road Initiative seeks to shape international order, through politics and infrastructure, with China at its centre. Over the past decade, China has put infrastructural and urban development at the heart of a strategy... Read More
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An exploration of how China’s Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics

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The Belt and Road City offers an exploration of how the Belt and Road Initiative seeks to shape international order, through politics and infrastructure, with China at its centre.

Over the past decade, China has put infrastructural and urban development at the heart of a strategy aimed at nothing less than the transformation of international order. The Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to revitalise and reconnect the ancient Silk Roads that linked much of the world before the rise of the West, is an attempt to place China at the centre of this new international order, one shaped by Chinese power, norms, and values. It seeks to do so, in part, by shaping our shared urban future.

Simon Curtis and Ian Klaus explore how China's specific investments in urban developmentβ€”cities, roads, railways, ports, digital and energy connectivityβ€”are directly linked to its foreign policy goals. Curtis and Klaus examine the implications of these developments as they evolve across this vast region.

The distinctive model of international order and urban life emerging with the rise of Chinese power and influence offers a potential rival to that which accompanied the rise and zenith of Western power, marking a new age of infrastructural geopolitics and Great Power competition.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300266900

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 May 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 2 b-w illus.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 280

About the Author

Simon Curtis is associate professor in international relations at the University of Surrey and senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. His books include Global Cities and Global Order. He lives in Surrey, UK. Ian Klaus is founding director of Carnegie California and former senior adviser for global cities at the US Department of State. His books include Forging Capitalism. He lives in California.

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