Thematic Fields of Research
I. Center and Margins
- Center and margin perspectives on globalization
- Chinese conception of world order
- Chinese universalism and Chinese global strategies
- Local worlds of Chinese globalization.
II. Politics of Infrastructure
- A Chinese model of development?
- Infrastructure shaping emerging social world
- The moral ambiguity of large infrastructures and public goods
- Transregional trading nodes and global exchange.
III. Expanding the Sphere of Exchange
- The ethics of antagonist cooperation
- Negotiating common grounds
- The art of deals and contracts
- Rewarding labor.