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Accepted Paper:
Politics and Development along the "Belt and Road"
Edward Schatz
(University of Toronto)
Paper long abstract:
China's announcement of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013 was expected to accelerate Chinese influence across Eurasia. What do BRI and related initiatives mean in actual places? In what ways—expected and unexpected—has China's growing influence affected states and societies across Eurasia? In this paper, I propose a framework for studying the kinds of political, economic, and social transformations engendered by the BRI. China was expected to change the political and economic geographies of the region, but has it?