An exploration of how China's Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape the international order and how it has ushered in a new era of infrastructure geopolitics. In recent years, China has placed infrastructure and urban development at the heart of a strategy aimed at nothing less than transforming the international order. The Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to revive and reconnect the ancient Silk Roads, is an effort to position China at the center of this new international order, shaped by China's power, values, and norms.

Simon Curtis and Ian Klaus explore how China's specific investments in urban development—cities, roads, railways, ports, digital and energy connectivity—are directly tied to its foreign policy goals. They examine the implications of these developments as they unfold across the vast Afro-Eurasian region.

The distinctive model of international order and urban life emerging with the rise of Chinese power and influence offers a potential competitor to that which has accompanied the rise and peak of Western power, marking a new era of infrastructure geopolitics and Great Power competition.

Pages: 280, Year of Publication: 0701, Dimensions: 15.6x15.6cm