The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US–China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide

Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Geopolitics, Infrastructure, and the Emergent Geographies of US–China Competition • Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler
Part I: Grounding Infrastructural Rivalry
	2 Mediating the Infrastructure State: The Role of Local Bureaucrats in East Africa’s Infrastructure Scramble • Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, and Masalu Luhula
	3 Roads, Debt, and Kyrgyzstan’s Quest for Geopolitical Kinship • Rune Steenberg, Ulan Shamshiev, and Farzana Abdilashimova
	4 Chinese Investment Meets Zambian Policy: The Planning and Design of Multi-Facility Economic Zones in Lusaka • Dorothy Tang
	5 Infrastructure as Symbolic Geopolitical Architecture: Kenya’s Megaprojects and Contested Meanings of Development • Wangui Kimari and Gediminas Lesutis
Interlude: The Emergence of a Sino-Centric Transnational Capitalist Class? • Steve Rolf
Part II: Infrastructural Governance and State Restructuring
	6 Contradictory Infrastructures and Military (D)Alliance:Philippine Elite Coalitions and Their Response to US–China Competition • Alvin Camba, Jerik Cruz, and Guanie Lim
	7 Infrastructure-Led Development with Post-Neoliberal Characteristics: Buen Vivir, China, and Extractivism in Ecuador • Nicholas Jepson
	8 Centralizing Infrastructure in a Fragmenting Polity: China and Ethiopia’s ‘Infrastructure State’ • Zhengli Huang and Tom Goodfellow
	9 Radioactive Strategies: Geopolitical Rivalries, African Agency, and the Longue Durée of Nuclear Infrastructures in Namibia • Meredith J. DeBoom
	10 Argentina and the Spatial Politics of Extractive Infrastructures under US–China Tensions • Marcelo I. Saguier and Maximiliano F. Vila Seoane
	11 Turkey between Two Worlds: EU Accession and the Middle Corridor to Central Asia • Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ and Seth Schindler
	12 Multipolar Infrastructures and Mosaic Geopolitics in Laos • Jessica DiCarlo and Micah Ingalls
Interlude: Locating Host-Country Agency and Hedging in Infrastructure Cooperation • Cheng-Chwee Kuik
Part III: Geopolitics and State Spatial Strategies
	13 Himalayan Geopolitical Competition and the Agency of the Infrastructure State in Nepal • Dinesh Paudel and Katharine Rankin
	14 Indonesia’s ‘Beauty Contest’: China, Japan, the US, and Jakarta’s Spatial Objectives • Angela Tritto, Mary Silaban, and Alvin Camba
	15 Vietnam’s Spatial and Hedging Strategies in Response to Chinese and Japanese Infrastructural Statecraft • Jessica C. Liao
	16 Diversifying Dependencies? Hungary, the EU, and the Multifaceted Geopolitics of Chinese Infrastructure Investments • Ferenc Gyuris
	17 ‘No One Stole Anyone Else’s Cheese’: The Politics of Infrastructural Competition in Kazakhstan • Jessica Neafie
	18 Outer Space Infrastructures • Julie Michelle Klinger
19 Conclusion: 21st-Century Third Worldism?  • Seth Schindler and Jessica DiCarlo
Index