The Rise of the Infrastructure State
How US-China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide
Bristol University Press
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
334 pages
978-1-5292-2078-0 (ISBN)
Description
Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure.
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.
By focusing on people and places worldwide, this book broadens perspectives on the US-China rivalry beyond bipolarity. It is an essential guide to 21st century politics.
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.
By focusing on people and places worldwide, this book broadens perspectives on the US-China rivalry beyond bipolarity. It is an essential guide to 21st century politics.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
9 s/w Abbildungen, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-2078-0 (9781529220780)
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Persons
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.
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.
Contributions
Middle East Technical University
University of Denver
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ateneo de Manila University
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan
University of South Carolina
University of Manchester
University of Birmingham
Landesa
Eoetvoes Lorand University
Tongji University, China
Content
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 Duree 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
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 Duree 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