Vassallo, Marco (A.A. 2024/2025) The Belt and Road initiative: imperial genealogies and new forms of power. Tesi di Laurea in Global management and politics, Luiss Guido Carli, relatore Rosario Forlenza, pp. 100. [Master's Degree Thesis]

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Abstract/Index

Mechanisms, Governance and Adaptation in the Belt and Road Initiative. Economic instruments: loans, debts and infrastructure investments. Loan conditions and suspensions during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mechanisms of financial dependence. Political, legal and diplomatic instruments: governance and sovereignty through infrastructure. Narrative tool: official Chinese discourse. Global and local adaptations: pandemic, economic crises, political instability. The Belt and Road initiative in Pakistan and Kenya: a comparative analysis of implementation and impact. Pakistan and the China–Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC). Kenya and the Standard gauge railway (SGR). Comparative analysis: convergences and divergences. The Belt and Road initiative as infrastructural imperialism: connectivity and dependence. The “infrastructural turn”: origins and developments. The empire in a comparative historical perspective. The global dimension of the Belt and Road initiative. Beyond the nation state: the BRI and the new architecture of global connectivity.

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Bibliografia: pp. 91-100.

Thesis Type:	Master's Degree Thesis
Institution:	Luiss Guido Carli
Degree Program:	Master's Degree Programs > Master's Degree program in Global Management and Politics, English language (LM-77)
Chair:	Global management and politics
Thesis Supervisor:	Forlenza, Rosario
Thesis Co-Supervisor:	Christiansen, Thomas
Academic Year:	2024/2025
Session:	Extraordinary
Additional Information:	Tesi discussa all'estero.
Deposited by:	Alessandro Perfetti
Date Deposited:	18 Jun 2026 10:37
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2026 10:37
URI:	https://tesi.luiss.it/id/eprint/46207

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