Research Workshop on Economic Statecraft: 

China in Comparative Perspective

Date & time: 25 March 2024, 9:00-13:00 and lunch

Venue:CON7.03 and https://lse.zoom.us/j/4170071493

Agenda：

9:00 Introduction

9:05-10:45 Chinese investments in the Global South

Chair: Kathy Hochstetler

Discussant: Hongying Wang

Zhengli Huang, Urban Studies Foundation international fellow at University of Sheffield andvisiting scholar at Bristol University.

Chinese infrastructure investment in East Africa

Bruno Binetti, PhD candidate, International Relations, LSE

Chinese infrastructure and state transformation in Latin America

Yuezhou Yang, Research Fellow at the LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub of the School of Public Policy, LSE

The heterogeneity of Chinese investors in African agriculture: A typology of Chinese economic actors?

10:45-11:00 Coffee and tea break

11:00-13:00 Economic statecraft in comparative perspective

Chair: Jeff Chwieroth

Discussants: Kathy Hochstetler, Natalia Naqvi

Hongying Wang, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Waterloo and Mayling Birney Global Scholar, LSE International Development

China’s economic statecraft (to confirm)

Nikhil Kalyanpur, Assistant Professor, International Relations, LSE

Elite Re-Globalization: Enforcement of Regulatory Regimes and the Restructuring of Offshore Wealth

Jazmin Sierra, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Globalized state-led development

13:00 Participants are invited to lunch in the SCR

The Mayling Birney Global Scholars Fund was created by the family of our late colleague, Dr Mayling Birney, to help raise the profile of research and scholarship on Greater China at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The fund supports the visits of scholars to the Department of International Development. We are pleased to welcome Dr Hongying Wang in March, 2024.