Geopolitical encounters and entanglements along the belt and road initiative

This survey brings into conversation diverse literatures on geopolitics in order to interrogate one of the most visible geopolitical projects our age, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The paper provides a brief review main approaches that are being applied BRI, including classical, critical, radical, assemblage feminist perspectives. While BRI positioned as way out essentialised accounts this initiative, also attempts facilitate dialogue value applying multiple different types knowledge its various contexts. It seeks capture how such thinking can bring BRI's incoherence myriad tensions focus. involves tracing competing logics, contexts, relations elements from which has emerged. Bringing strands thought rejects singular reductionist interpretations understandings more broadly. highlights linkages between assemblages, well circular logic some prevailing geopolitics. explores multi-dimensional possibilities contemporary for examining interwoven logics contradictions, while using case study evaluate diversity potential sub-field.