Publications

Select books by SCWO research associates include:

The Political Economy of Japanese and Chinese Infrastructure Financing Governance (Wijaya 2025)
China’s Digital Expansion in the Global South (Heeks, Jepson, and Schindler 2025)
The Spectre of State Capitalism (Alami and Dixon 2024)
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire (Potts 2024)
Africa’s Railway Renaissance: The role and impact of China. (Zajontz, Carmody, Bagwandeen and Leseny 2024)
The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa: Capital, State Agency, Debt (Zajontz 2023)
The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US-China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide (Schindler & DiCarlo 2022)
Fractured China: How State Transformation Is Shaping China’s Rise (Jones and Hameiri 2021)
In China’s Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South (Jepson 2020)
China’s Uneven and Combined Development (Rolf 2020)

2026

The emergence and politics of polyalignment in Third World Quarterly (DiCarlo,Hameiri, Jones, Schindler 2026)

Midstream geopolitics: Processing power in critical mineral supply chains in Political Geography (Deberdt, Le Billon, DiCarlo 2026)

.....More coming soon.....

2025

Member Newsletter 1.1 (March 2025)

Member Newsletter 1.2 (September 2025)

Abels, Joscha. 2025. Making “strategic autonomy” rhyme with “fiscal austerity”? Unresolved conflicts of (geo)economic ideas in EU infrastructure policy. Competition & Change 29(2).

Alami, Ilias, Jessica DiCarlo, Steve Rolf, Seth Schindler. 2025. The new frontline: The US-China battle for control of global networks. State of Power 2025: The Geopolitics of Capitalism. The Transnational Institute.

Alami, I. 2025. Foreign investment screening: Between empire, capital, and the climate crisis. Dialogues in Human Geography, 20438206251335319.

Alami, I., Taggart, J., & Chodor, T. 2025. Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy. Global Policy.

Alami, I. 2025. State capitalism in transition. In Y. Aoyama, D. Haberly, R. Horner and S Schindler (eds) A Research Agenda for Economic Geography (pp. 13-26). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Bennett, Mia, Jessica DiCarlo, and Sarah Elwood. 2025. The world from a bicycle: Cycling as kinesthetic methodology. Progress in Human Geography.

DeBoom, Meredith. 2025. Displaced decarbonization: Climate necropolitics and the contested spatialities of green hydrogen in Namibia. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.

DeBoom, Meredith. 2025. Hedging energy transition: Green hydrogen, oil, and low-carbon resilience as state strategy in Namibia. Geoforum 161: 104267.

DiCarlo, Jessica and Meredith DeBoom. 2025. Six paths of Global China: A genealogy of a contested geographical imaginary. Dialogues in Human Geography.

DiCarlo, Jessica, Cory Combs, and Raphael Debert. 2025. Fractured extraction: Mining firms, provinces, and municipalities in the decentralized politics of China’s rare earth production. The China Quarterly.

DiCarlo, Jessica and Juliet Lu. 2025. Chinese Investment in Laos. Lao Land for Life project, Vientiane. Available from:

DiCarlo, Jessica and David Fernando Bachrach. 2025. The corridor as commodity: Enclosure, legibility, and uneven development in Southeast Asian railway projects. Antipode.

DiCarlo, Jessica and Dinesh Paudel. 2025. Infrastructural polyalignment and Himalayan geopolitics: subjugation, small-state agency, and regional competition in Nepal. Third World Quarterly.

DiCarlo, Jessica. 2025. Cycling as method, train as transect: Exploring infrastructural friction and flow through mobile ethnography. In Being Present: Emerging Ethnographic Perspectives and the Study of Laos, edited by Rosalie Stolz and Paul-David Lutz. The University of Chicago Press.

DiCarlo, Jessica. 2025. Behind the Spectacle of the Belt and Road Initiative: Corridor Perspectives, In/visibility, and a Politics of Sight. In Seeing China’s Belt and Road, edited by Rachel Silvey and Edward Schatz. Oxford University Press.

Gagyi, A., & Gerőcs, T. 2025. Polyalignment as geoeconomic bridging: Hungary’s reindustrialisation amid global protectionism. Third World Quarterly.

Gagyi, A., & Gerőcs, T. (2025). Dependent development under geopolitical reconfiguration: the Orbán regime in Hungary. Globalizations.

Gerőcs, T. (2025). The Sahel Confederation: The Historic Role of the Military in West African Developmentalism. International Critical Thought.

Hameiri, Shahar & Jones, Lee. 2025. Explaining China’s Approach to the Global Governance of Sovereign Debt Distress: A State Transformation Analysis. Review of International Political Economy 32:4 (2025), 945-969.

Hameiri, Shahar & Jones, Lee. 2025. Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China. Development and Change 56:1(2025): 3-30.

Hofman, Irna. 2025. Which and whose rules rule? Chinese agribusinesses and the challenge of compliance in rural Tajikistan. Regulation & Governance.

Jones, Lee. 2025. Trump’s Tariff Gamble and the Decay of Neoliberal Order. American Affairs 9:2 (2025): 207-227.

Liu, I. T. (2025). Temporary Labour Migration and Chinese State-Led Infrastructure Development in Serbia. In M. Thuno, S. Wang, E. Tran Sautede, & Y. Tseng (Eds.), Handbook of Chinese Migration to Europe (pp. 187–211). BRILL.

Liu, I. T. (2025). Making sense of foreign investment screening through sectoral analysis. Dialogues in Human Geography.

Magunna, A. 2025.Beyond hedging: understanding India’s polyalignment in the Second Cold War. Third World Quarterly.

Sari Karademir, Burcu & Sahin, Selver B. 2025. Gender and disaster management in Turkey: a strategic-relational analysis of the state response to the February 2023 earthquakes. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

Sahin, Selver B. 2025. Book Review. Building peace, rebuilding patriarchy: the failure of gender interventions in Timor-Leste by Melissa Johnston. Oxford University Press, 2023. Journal of Development Studies.

Sahin Selver B. & Verkhovets, Stepan. The market panacea: the co-option of gender equality discourse as part of neoliberal development. In The Political Economy of Dissent: A Research Companion, edited by Peter Blunt, Cecilia Escobar & Vlassis Missos, London: Routledge.

Schindler, Seth and Steve Rolf. Geostrategic globalization: US–China rivalry, corporate strategy, and the new global economy. Globalizations.

Vila Seoane, M.F. 2025. The Digital Foreign Policies of the US, the PRC and the EU towards Latin America and the Caribbean. The International Spectator.

Wijaya, Trissia & Jones, Lee. 2025. Indonesia, Nickel, and the Political Economy of Polyalignment in the Second Cold War. Third World Quarterly.

Wijaya, Trissia and Kanishka Jayasuriya. 2025. Engineering China’s militarised neoliberalism: Class, state and technology. Made in China Journal.

Wijaya, Trissia and Alvin Camba. 2025. Geopolitics of BRI-tagged corridor: The case of Indonesia and the Philippines. Eurasian Geography and Economics.

Wijaya, Trissia. 2025. Risk is not measured, but compromised and contested: the case of Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Railway. Journal of Contemporary Asia 55(3), 405-429.

Wijaya, Trissia. 2025, forthcoming. The rise of authoritarian statism in Indonesia and the crisis of crisis management. Journal of Contemporary Asia.

Wijaya, Trissia, Jessica Liao, Ewon Baik, & Saori Katada. 2025. Pivotal Power of Small States to Save the International Liberal Economic Order. The Pacific Review 38(2), 283-316.

Wijaya, Trissia & Lian Sinclair. 2025. An EV fix for Indonesian extractivism: The resource nationalist-green development nexus. Environmental Politics,34(2): 252-274.

2024

Abels, J. (2024). Private infrastructure in geopolitical conflicts. The case of Starlink and the war in Ukraine. European Journal of International Relations 30(4).

Alami, I. (2024). Foreign investment screening mechanisms and emergent geographies of (post) globalization. Dialogues in Human Geography, 20438206241278733.

Alami, I., Taggart, J., Whiteside, H., Gonzalez-Vicente, R., Liu, I. T., & Rolf, S. (2024). Quo vadis neoliberalism in an age of resurgent state capitalism?. Finance and Space, 1(1), 340-367.

Baines, J and Hager, S. Rentiership and intellectual monopoly in contemporary capitalism: conceptual challenges and empirical possibilities. Socio-Economic Review.

Balmas, P. and Howarth, D. (2024). Chinese currency exceptionalism: The curious internationalisation of the renminbi. The World Economy.

Deberdt, Raphael, Jessica DiCarlo, and Hyeyoon Park. (2024) Standardizing “green” extractivism: Chinese & Western environmental, social, and governance instruments in the critical mineral sector. Extractive Industries and Society, 19: 101516.

Debert, Raphael and Jessica DiCarlo. (2024) Pericentricity on the Congolese Copperbelt: How the DRC Shapes Chinese Cobalt Supply Chains and the Low-Carbon Transition. Globalizations, 21(8): 1496-1517.

DiCarlo, Jessica. Speed, Suspension, and Stasis: Life in the Shadow of Infrastructure. (2024). In Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds, edited by Jean-Paul Addie, Michael Glass, and Jen Nelles. Bristol University Press.

Hameiri, Shahar and Lee Jones. (2024) ‘Why the West’s Alternative to China’s International Infrastructure Financing is Failing’, European Journal of International Relations 30:3, 697-724

Hameiri, Shahar and Lee Jones. (2024) ‘China, International Competition and the Stalemate in Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Beyond Geopolitics’, International Affairs 100:2, 691-710

Jones, Lee. (2024) Review of Muyang Chen’s The Latecomer’s Rise: Policy Banks and the Globalization of China’s Development Finance, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, early online.

Mayer, Maximilian and Philip J. Nock. (2024). Editorial: Digital fragmentations, technological sovereignty and new perspectives on the global digital political economy. Global Political Economy.

Sahin, Selver B and Stepan Verkhovets. (2024) Guns, gender and petroleum: A critical analysis of the underlying dynamics of Timor-Leste’s development trajectory. Third World Quarterly, 45(3): 475-492.

Schindler, Seth and Steve Rolf. 2024. Geostrategic globalization: US–China rivalry, corporate strategy, and the new global economy. Globalizations.

Wijaya, Trissia & Kanishka Jayasuriya. 2024. A new multipolar order: Combined development, state forms, and new business classes. International Affairs, 100(5), 2133-2152.

Zajontz, Tim. (2024). ‘Seamless imaginaries, territorialized realities: the regional politics of corridor governance in Southern Africa’, Territory, Politics, Governance 12(8): 1073-1094.

Zajontz, Tim and Muhidin Shangwe (2024) ‘Contemporary geopolitics-cum-geoeconomics in East Africa: New scrambles and omni-alignments’, in Cope, Z. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Zajontz, Tim and Mandira Bagwandeen 2024. ‘Infrastructure’, in Engel, Ulf (ed.) Yearbook on the African Union 2022. Volume 3. Leiden: Brill.

Zajontz, Tim. 2024. ‘The political economy of China’s globalising railways – and their arrival in Africa’, in Africa’s Railway Renaissance: The role and impact of China. Abingdon: Routledge.

Zajontz, Tim. 2024. ‘Chinese globalism, African regionalisms and state spatial strategies: The intricacies of regionalising Africa’s railway renaissance’, in Africa’s Railway Renaissance: The role and impact of China. Abingdon: Routledge.

2023

Abels, J. (2024). Private infrastructure in geopolitical conflicts. The case of Starlink and the war in Ukraine. European Journal of International Relations 30(4).

Addie, J.P., & Ward, K. (2023). The state of urban research? The state of urban research! Journal of Urban Affairs.

Alami, I. (2024). Foreign investment screening mechanisms and emergent geographies of (post) globalization. Dialogues in Human Geography, 20438206241278733.

Alami, I. (2023). Ten theses on the new state capitalism and its futures. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(3), 764-769.

Alami, I., Whiteside, H., Dixon, A. D., & Peck, J. (2023). Making space for the new state capitalism, part II: Relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(3), 621-635.

Alami, I., Copley, J., & Moraitis, A. (2023). The ‘wicked trinity’ of late capitalism: Governing in an era of stagnation, surplus humanity, and environmental breakdown. Geoforum, 103691.

Alami, I., Alves, C., Bonizzi, B., Kaltenbrunner, A., Koddenbrock, K., Kvangraven, I., & Powell, J. (2023). International financial subordination: a critical research agenda. Review of International Political Economy, 30(4), 1360-1386.

Balmas, P. & Dörry, S. (2023). Chinese bank networks in Europe: FDI-oriented by legal and strategic design. Eurasian Geography and Economics.

Bayırbağ, M. K., Schindler, S., & Penpecioğlu, M. (2023). The limits to urban revolution: the transformation of Ankara, Turkey, under the Justice and Development Party. Urban Geography, 44(8), 1677-1700.

Bayırbağ, M. K., Schindler, S., & Penpecioğlu, M. (2023). Structural violence and the urban politics of hope in Ankara, Turkey. City, 27(3-4), 464-482.

Chodor, T & Hameiri, S. (2023). The Locked-Up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia’s Covid-19 Response. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press.

Chodor, T & Hameiri, S. (2023). Covid-19 and the Pathologies of Australia’s Regulatory State. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 53(1), 28-52.

DiCarlo, J. (2023) The BRI, Grounded, and Forum: A Decade of the Belt and Road Initiative (Introduction and editor). Global China Pulse, 2(1): 117-146.

DiCarlo, J. & Sims, K. Corridors of connectivity and the infrastructural land rush in Laos. In The Handbook for Global Land and Resource Grabbing. Routledge.

Dixon, A.D., Peck, J., Alami, I., & Whiteside, H. (2023). Making space for the new state capitalism, part III: Thinking conjuncturally. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(5), 1207-1217.

Lawhon, M., Follmann, A., Braun, B., Cornea, N., Greiner, C., Guma, P., Karpouzoglou, T., Diez, J.R., Schindler, S., Schramm, S. and Sielker, F., 2023. Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south. Futures, 154, p.103270.

Liu, I. T. (2023). Beyond the spatial fix: towards a finance-sensitive reading of the Belt and Road in Serbia. Area Development and Policy, 1-22.

Park, A.S. (2023). Understanding resilience in sustainable development: Rallying call or siren song? Sustainable Development.

Rolf, S. (2023). The revenge of multiplicity: Chinese capitalism under systemic competition. Global Political Economy, 2(1), 121-138.

Rolf, S., & Schindler, S. (2023). The US–China rivalry and the emergence of state platform capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0308518X221146545.

Roy, I. (2023). Southern multilateralism: Complementary competition vis-à-vis the Liberal International Order. Global Perspectives, 3(1), 39589.

Roy, I. (2023). Southern Multilateralism: India's engagement with Africa and the emergence of a multiplex world order. Journal of International Development, 35(4), 566-582.

Whiteside, H., Alami, I., Dixon, A. D., & Peck, J. (2023). Making space for the new state capitalism, part I: Working with a troublesome category. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(1), 63-71.

Williams, G., Mahadevia, D., Schindler, S., & Chattaraj, S. (2023). Megaprojects, mirages and miracles: territorializing the Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and state restructuring in contemporary India. Territory, Politics, Governance, 11(3), 456-477.

2022

Alami, I. (2022). The spiral of state capitalism: Labour transformations or the ‘whip of external necessity’? Global Political Economy, 2(1), 17-36.

Alami, I., & Dixon, A. D. (2022). “Expropriation of Capitalist by State Capitalist:” Organizational Change and the Centralization of Capital as State Property. Economic geography, 98(4), 303-326.

Alami, I., Babic, M., Dixon, A. D., & Liu, I. T. (2022). Special issue introduction: what is the new state capitalism?. Contemporary politics, 28(3), 245-263.

Babić, M., Dixon, A. D., & Liu, I. T. (Eds.). (2022). The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Balmas, P., and Dörry, S. (2022). The Geoeconomics of Chinese Bank Expansion into the European Union. In: Babić, M., Dixon, A.D., Liu, I.T. (eds) The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World. Palgrave Macmillan

Bisley, N., Eckersley, R., Hameiri, S., Kirk, J., Lawson, G., & Zala, B. (2022). For a progressive realism: Australian foreign policy in the 21st century. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 76(2), 138-160.

Blaustein, J., Chodor, T., & Pino, N. W. (2022). Unraveling the Crime-development Nexus. Rowman & Littlefield.

Chodor, T., & Blaustein, J. (2022). The Politics of Crime, Law and Development in Historical Perspective. In Handbook on the Politics of International Development (pp. 118-130). Edward Elgar Publishing.

DeBoom, M. J. (2022). Climate coloniality as atmospheric violence: From necropolitics toward planetary mutuality. Political Geography, 99, 102786.

DeBoom, M. J. (2022). Radioactive Strategies: Geopolitical Rivalries, African Agency, and the Longue Durée of Nuclear Infrastructures in Namibia. In The Rise of the Infrastructure State (pp. 137-152). Bristol University Press.

DiCarlo, J. (2022) Boten from dawn till dusk. Eventuality and Rhythms of Life in a City Yet-to-Come. Global China Pulse, 1(1): 140-159.

Gagyi, A., & Slačálek, O. (Eds.). (2022). The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’: New Left Perspectives from the Region. Springer Nature.

Gagyi, A., & Gerőcs, T. (2022). Reconfiguring Regimes of Capitalist Integration: Hungary Since the 1970s. In The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’ New Left Perspectives from the Region, 115-131.

Gillespie, T., & Schindler, S. (2022). Africa’s new urban spaces: deindustrialisation, infrastructure-led development and real estate frontiers. Review of African Political Economy, 49(174), 531-549.

Jones, L., & Hameiri, S. (2022). Explaining the failure of global health governance during COVID-19. International Affairs, 98(6), 2057-2076.

Jones, L., & Hameiri, S. (2022). COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state. Review of International Political Economy, 29(4), 1027-1052.Kanai, J. M., & Schindler, S. (2022). Infrastructure-led development and the peri-urban question: Furthering crossover comparisons. Urban Studies, 59(8), 1597-1617.

Liu, I. T., & Dixon, A. D. (2022). What does the state do in China’s state-led infrastructure financialisation? Journal of Economic Geography, 22(5), 963-988.

Schindler, S. & DiCarlo, J. Towards a critical geopolitics of China-US rivalry: Pericentricity, regional conflicts and transnational connections. Area, 54(4): 638-645.

Schindler, S., Alami, I., & Jepson, N. (2022). Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy. New Political Economy, 28(2), 223-240.

Sebők, M., & Simons, J. (2022). How Orbán won? Neoliberal disenchantment and the grand strategy of financial nationalism to reconstruct capitalism and regain autonomy. Socio-Economic Review, 20(4), 1625–1651.

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