{"id":4698,"date":"2019-01-16T14:53:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T19:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/?post_type=cu_event&p=4698"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:13:34","slug":"global-politics-of-chinas-belt-road-initiative-bri","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/event\/global-politics-of-chinas-belt-road-initiative-bri\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Politics of China\u2019s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This workshop critically assesses the global politics of China\u2019s ambitious new grand strategy, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). As the world\u2019s economic centre of gravity progressively moves eastwards, China is extending its trading routes and infrastructure capacity westwards. The term Silk Road (in German Seidenstra\u00dfe) was first used by the German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen, in 1877. Doyle refers to \u2018interimperiality,\u2019 the ways in which empires rework networks, ideas, sites, and spaces \u2013 which she termed \u201csedimented infrastructures,\u201d that were, in turn, central to other prior imperial systems. Should we be reading the material components of a world order as being in the process of transformation through the BRI? How can we investigate the role of material infrastructure in sustaining different forms of world order? As Beijing downplays competitive geopolitics and talks instead of common development, win\u2013win cooperation and communities of shared destiny, a guiding question for this workshop is whether these developments will significantly change global politics, and possibly world order.<\/p>\n

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