ABSTRACT The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)–China's multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure
program across 138 countries and counting–has provoked concern among observers that …

This piece examines and critiques the massive literature on China's ambitious Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI). It details how research currently seems stuck on the road to nowhere …

As frame for the set that follows, this article first considers the range of theoretical
interpretations of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Our focus, however, is on a related …

China's grand strategy under Xi Jinping is clearly distinctive. It does not, however,
fundamentally break with the grand strategy that China has embraced since the early 1990s …

China's economic model, commonly described as “state capitalist,” is now better
characterized as party-state capitalism, in which the political survival of the Communist Party …

The rise of digital platforms as a new form of business organisation concentrates power in
the United States and China. Platform capitalism further intersects with and reinforces pre …

Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in
the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decades of integration into the global …

Mounting overaccumulation of capital and material has compelled the Chinese government
to seek solutions overseas. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), with its transregional …

Abstract China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), labelled as the world's largest infrastructure
program, has so far directed investments mainly to energy and transportation networks in …

Many observers of international politics detect a growing Chinese challenge to the rules-
based, liberal international order. In particular, some saw Beijing's recent creation of the …