Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure,
trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily …

This book examines the global scope of tourism-related grabbing of land and other natural
resources. Tourism is often presented as a peaceful and benevolent sector that brings …

This paper considers how the technocracy contributes to the mobilisation of policy, and in
doing so suggests that this allows for a systematic explanation for policy mobility that is …

This book explores the evolution of the 30 functioning multilateral development banks
(MDBs). MDBs have their roots in the growing system of international finance and …

The Mekong River Basin (MRB) has experienced drastic and extensive land-use and land-
cover changes (LULCCs) since the 1990s, including the conflicts between cropland and …

Following the extraordinary wealth generation of casinos in Macau and Singapore,
governments and non-state actors across Southeast Asia have developed gambling …

This article examines the centrality of infrastructure connectivity within the post-2008
'retroliberal'global aid regime. Through the critical interrogation of connectivity and …

The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) has been styled as a natural region drawn together
by the Mekong River. However, the literature on regional identity has argued that regions …

Over the past decade, the Lao government has developed the policy of 'Turning Land into
Capital'(TLIC), a strategy for generating revenue and economic value from 'state land'. The …

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become the lodestar of Beijing's efforts to increase
its global political and economic influence. This article interrogates BRI discourse, arguing …