Release of the book Africa’s Global Infrastructure!
The Infraglob team is delighted to announce the release of the book Africa’s Global Infrastructure. Resulting from research conducted within the project, this volume …
Preview: Book Africa’s Global Infrastructures. South-South Transformations in Practice – Coming soon!
As you might already know, our project is working on an edited volume together with our great contributors. Now that our book has a title …
Talk by Professor Chih-yu Shih on “Constituting Autocratic Governance Through Ideas and Personality: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Mass-line Sensibilities”
We were very happy to welcome Professor Chih-yu Shih from the Department of Political Science at the National Taiwan University at the University of Bayreuth …
New open access publication online now: The South-South investment that never happended: Vale in Guinea
We are very happy to announce the publication of the article “The South-South investment that never happened: Vale in Guinea” by Eric Cezne and Mathias …
INFRAGLOB at international Conferences this Year – A Selection
This summer and autumn have been busy months for the INFRAGLOB team. Despite the challenging context of the ongoing pandemic, we had the opportunity to …
Publication: ‘Community of Common Destiny’ as Post-Western Regionalism: Rethinking China’s Belt and Road Initiative from a Confucian Perspective
ERC INFRAGLOB team member Raoul Bunskoek and co-author Chih-yu Shih, Professor in Political Science at National Taiwan University, have recently published the article, ‘‘Community of …
Africa’s South-South relations: Mining and Railway Lines in Mozambique
At the beginning of the 21st century, Africa experienced a fundamental change: while development aid and foreign investment used to come mainly from the West, …
Forging Transnational Ties from below: Challenging the Brazilian Mining Giant Vale S.A. across the South Atlantic
By Eric Cezne
In recent years, Brazil has been affected by a struggling economy and considerable political turmoil (Boito and Saad-Filho, 2016; Garmany …