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In our new publication in CJIP, @pguer.bsky.social and I analyze the BRI through a technopolitical lens, tracing how it connects China’s frontier governance with regional integration, thus reshaping both China’s domestic peripheries and peninsular Southeast Asia. academic.oup.com/cjip/article...

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My colleague and I just published a piece @thediplomat.com complicating purely geopolitical takes on China-Iran BRI ties. We spotlight the domestic drivers: China’s push to develop its interior, and Iran’s bid to be a Eurasian trade hub. thediplomat.com/2025/05/beyo...

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In my recent publication for Connections: The Quarterly Journal, I argue that Indo-Pacific states are exercising their agency in ways that constrain or co-opt the Sino-American strategic competition in the region. Open access: connections-qj.org/article/stra...

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Some time ago, NASA hired me to write about stuff humanity had flung into the heavens, far beyond Earth. They published it in 2018. This is it, a 372-page reference on every spaceship sent to deep space (cover by explorer & filmmaker extraordinaire @arielwaldman.com): www.nasa.gov/history/hist...

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