Re-orienting development: the dynamics and effects of Chinese infrastructure investment in Europe

Project Information

REDEFINE

Grant agreement ID: 885475

DOI

10.3030/885475

Project closed

EC signature date 8 September 2020

Start date 1 November 2020

End date 31 October 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 497 726,00

EU contribution

€ 2 497 726,00

Coordinated by

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

In line with Work Package 2 we will develop a Data Management Plan and submit to the ERC A draft is available

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Conceptualising Chinese transnational infrastructure projects in Europe and beyond

Author(s): Florian Schaefer, Giles Mohan
Published in: Progress in Human Geography, Issue 48, 2025, Page(s) 805-825, ISSN 0309-1325
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/03091325241269768

The emergence of the ‘rentocrat’

Author(s): Samuel Rogers
Published in: New Political Economy, Issue 28, 2023, Page(s) 744-757, ISSN 1356-3467
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2172148

Assembling China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Discourse, Institution, and Materials

Author(s): Ran Hu
Published in: International Political Sociology, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 1749-5679
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae002

City diplomacy as a strategic partnership: insights from Manchester and Wuhan

Author(s): Weiwei Chen, Filippo Boni, Yameng Zhang
Published in: Journal of International Relations and Development, Issue 29, 2025, ISSN 1408-6980
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1057/s41268-025-00365-6

De-risking, re-balancing and recentralising: Intra-state relations in Chinese-backed transport infrastructure projects in Europe

Author(s): Giles Mohan, Filippo Boni, Samuel Rogers, Florian Schaefer, Yue Wang
Published in: Political Geography, Issue 113, 2024, Page(s) 103152, ISSN 0962-6298
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103152

Illiberal capitalist development: Chinese state-owned capital investment in Serbia

Author(s): Samuel Rogers
Published in: Contemporary Politics - What is the new state capitalism?, Issue Volume 28, 2022, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 347-364, ISSN 1356-9775
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2021.2022876

Role of international sister-city partnerships in facilitating sustainable urbanisation: practices between Manchester and Wuhan

Author(s): Yameng Zhang, Bingqing Zhao, Weiwei Chen
Published in: Global Sustainability, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2059-4798
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/sus.2025.10029

A tale of two ports: relational power in COSCO’s European port investments

Author(s): Giles Mohan, Ran Hu, Philipp Katsinas, Samuel Rogers
Published in: Territory, Politics, Governance, 2025, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 2162-2671
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2025.2587704

Other (1)

What happens when Chinese firms invest in European infrastructure

Author(s): Giles Mohan
Published in: The Project Repository Journal, Issue Volume 12 , April 2022, 2022, Page(s) 42-45
Publisher: The Project Repository Journal
DOI: 10.54050/prj1218406

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

The politics of labour relations in global production networks: Collective action, industrial parks, and local conflict in the Ethiopian apparel sector

Author(s): Florain Schaefer, Carlos Oya
Published in: Science Direct, Issue Volume 146, October 2021, 2021, ISSN 0305-750X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105564

Monographic books (1)

The Political Economy of Hungarian Authoritarian Populism

Author(s): Samuel Rogers
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003161776