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 …
Back to Mozambique 20 Years Later: Is Optimism Overblown?
By Eric Cezne
During my first field trip to Mozambique in May and June this year, it was clear that the country has been through