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Zenel Garcia
@zenel25.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College. Indo-Pacific & Eurasian Security, Strategy, and Development Politics.
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De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social · 8d
Proud to launch the Digital Library of Chinese Classics! 510 texts, 20 years of research, 500 scholars, 282 vols, in one comprehensive digital collection, empowered by Brill’s renowned dictionaries. Check it out:
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The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social · 10d
Chinese infrastructure projects in Africa are often seen as rigid, but host governments can shape terms. Skilled negotiation on loans, resources, and repayment helps determine whether deals drive development or increase fiscal strain.

Latest article in the series - tinyurl.com/4sdnrbp5
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The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social · Jul 27
We launched a new series that unpacks how Chinese-backed power projects in Africa work.

We hosted Naa Adjekai Adjei, CGSP’s non-resident fellow for Africa and the lead on this series, about her findings so far and what to expect next.

Watch - tinyurl.com/yum3r982
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 27d
The truth about China’s port empire isn’t in the headlines — it’s in the messy details.
Ports, Politics, and Power: The Messy Reality of China’s Overseas Port Investments
What if China’s global port empire isn’t the master plan Washington fears, but a patchwork of messy deals shaped as much by local politics as Beijing’s
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Alexandra (Xander) Meise @ruleoflaw.bsky.social · 27d
In @warontherocks.bsky.social @zenel25.bsky.social & I argue that Beijing may have strategic aims for port investments, but #SOE, provincial, & host-country goals & rivalries keep things complicated & not guaranteed. States retain #sovereign power to steer & control what happens tinyurl.com/4ratufkz
Ports, Politics, and Power: The Messy Reality of China’s Overseas Port Investments
What if China’s global port empire isn’t the master plan Washington fears, but a patchwork of messy deals shaped as much by local politics as Beijing’s
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Zenel Garcia @zenel25.bsky.social · 27d
We argue that even where Chinese firms hold large stakes, local governments often retain legal authority to limit use, including military access.

For the U.S. and others, the key isn’t alarmism but helping partners strengthen transparency, regulations, and sovereignty.
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Zenel Garcia @zenel25.bsky.social · 27d
In @warontherocks.bsky.social Dr. Meise and I argue that China’s port investments aren’t a single, coherent strategy for global dominance. Beijing has strategic aims, but projects are shaped by SOEs seeking profit, provincial rivalries, and host country politics. warontherocks.com/2025/09/port...
Ports, Politics, and Power: The Messy Reality of China’s Overseas Port Investments
What if China’s global port empire isn’t the master plan Washington fears, but a patchwork of messy deals shaped as much by local politics as Beijing’s
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Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia @jceajournal.bsky.social · Sep 5
The Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (Scopus-indexed) seeks reviewers for: 1) Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core (Springer, 2025) & 2) Innovation-Development Detours for Latecomers (CUP, 2024). Reviews: 3–5 pp. Info: jceasia.org Volunteer: [email protected]
Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
A Peer-Reviewed Journal on Convergence and Future Studies in Asia
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Zenel Garcia @zenel25.bsky.social · Sep 4
In our piece for @madeinchinajournal.com, @pguer.bsky.social and I examine the paradoxes of China’s hydropower: a technology meant to solve problems that often deepens them. Using the lens of technopolitics, we show how technology reshapes power itself. madeinchinajournal.com/2025/09/04/t...
The Technopolitics of China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Dam Project and the Paradox of Hydropower | Made in China Journal
Three years after announcing their intent to construct a mega-dam along the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River as part of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, Chinese officials gave their approval to proce...
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Sep 4
From Sanmenxia and Three Gorges to the Yarlung Tsangpo Dam, China has long relied on monumental hydropower to prove state capacity. @zenel25.bsky.social and @pguer.bsky.social show how such projects, while promising development and security, often deepen the very insecurities they claim to resolve.
The Technopolitics of China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Dam Project and the Paradox of Hydropower | Made in China Journal
Three years after announcing their intent to construct a mega-dam along the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River as part of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, Chinese officials gave their approval to proce...
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Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social · Aug 26
Excited to be offering our bespoke fieldwork methods course "Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts" with @xiananj.bsky.social for @komex.bsky.social next February, alongside a truly fantastic line-up of courses - with something for every methodological persuasion!
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Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops @komex.bsky.social · Aug 18
Registration is NOW OPEN for #KOMEX2026

✨ Excellence. Affordability. No flights.
In-person @uni-konstanz.de or online via #ekomex

Learn from top scholars in:
🧠 R, Python, NVivo, QCA, Process Tracing, ML, SNA & more

🗓️ Feb 2026

🔗 Join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/kon...

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Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social · Aug 22
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads theconversation.com/studying-phi...
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Aug 21
NEW ANALYSIS: Record solar growth keeps China's CO2 falling in H1 2025, extending a decline since Mar 2024

☀️212GW added in H1 alone (US only has 178GW, in total)
⚡Power CO2 down 3%
🏗️Steel/cement falling too
🏭Coal-chemicals only sector to rise

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Andrew Szarejko @szarejko.bsky.social · Aug 19
A new flyer and promo code for 20% off my forthcoming book at the @stanfordpress.bsky.social website: www.sup.org/books/politi...
Summary of American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy. Promo code: SZAREJKO20
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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Aug 19
🚨Open Session submitted for the upcoming RSA & ANZRSAI Conference 🚨

S01: Rethinking Talent Geographies in Shrinking and Peripheral Regions: New Methods, Global Patterns, and Policy Innovation

For more information on this session and the conference:

💻 bit.ly/4okCnlk

Abstracts by: 19 September
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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · Aug 18
🚨Abstract Deadline Day for 2025 Regional Futures Conference 🚨

⌛18 August

Join the RSA community in 🌎London, UK 🗓️13-14 November.

For more information and to submit your abstract:

🔗 bit.ly/4lgfLj3

😀🔁
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Journal of Global Security Studies @journalofgss.bsky.social · Jul 14
How do the epistemic security positions of private tech companies complicate the regulation of digital security?

🔍 Check out the three regulatory challenges outlined in @aobendiek.bsky.social’s latest research.

Available here: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...
The cover image of The Journal of Global Security Studies appears on the left. At the bottom, the journal’s homepage URL (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) are displayed in white text on a navy blue background. The rest of the image features a background of computer programming language text. Overlaid on this is the article title and author name: “Private Companies in Digital Security: How Private Control over Information and Knowledge Shapes Regulatory Challenges” by Anke S. Obendiek.
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Aug 5
What is Sinopessimism? From lying flat to runology, Dino Ge Zhang explores a grassroots lexicon of disillusionment in China. Not just youth disengagement but a low theory of coping, refusing, and imagining alternatives amid economic and social pressures.
On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility | Made in China Journal
This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141)   Gary Gexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, imag...
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Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · Aug 3
US and EU economic sanctions have contributed to 38 million deaths between 1971 and 2021. F*cking insane www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · Jul 31
Facts Will Not Save You
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Facts Will not Save You
AI, history, and Soviet sci-fi
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · Jul 29
Reminder: Our Special Issue and Symposia proposal deadline is this Friday, 1st August!

Details: environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · Jul 29
Importantly, Huw makes the point that prioritising accessible/simple points for practitioners is destroying the quest for original empirical and conceptual scholarly work, in supposedly scholarly texts. I see that plenty and shows the problems of a relentless 'impact' assessment agenda.
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · Jul 29
Good review essay by @bennetthuw.bsky.social on recent Grand Strategy books:

"If these three books are anything to go by, the real malaise now besetting grand strategy studies is one of banality, a problem caused by indifference to originality as the fundamental purpose of scholarly writing."
New writings on grand strategy
The recent revival in the study of grand strategy owes much to the search for meaning about the West’s global purpose after the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan. Long dominated by writing on the Un...
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · Jul 28
Great way to also get three months of RIS access free!
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jul 24
Know someone that would love to join BISA? Are you a member? 🎉

Our BISA referral scheme allows current members to receive three months free BISA membership added on to the end of their membership for every new member they refer! 🌟

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New referral incentive scheme for BISA members – three months free membership!
Current members can receive three months free BISA membership for every new member they refer.
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MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social · Jul 26
👀 Heard of the Methods Café?
It is where methodologists connect, exchange ideas ☕💬
We kept the energy alive at the summer school, we are continuing at the 2nd MethodsNET Conference with interactive Communities sessions open to all! 🙌
Late registration open until 21 August: bit.ly/4lhIip5
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The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social · Jul 22
China’s Belt and Road Initiative shattered records in early 2025 with $124B in deals, signaling a renewed appetite for large-scale projects, especially in energy, mining, and fast-growing regions like Africa.
Chinese BRI Investments and Construction Contracts Smash New Records in the First Half of 2025
The value of Chinese investment and construction contracts in Belt and Road Initiative countries surged in the first six months of 2025 to a record $124 billion, more than what was spent for the whole of last year. The findings by Australia’s Griffith University and the Green Finance & Development Center ...
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · Jul 14
1/US policy seems uniquely positioned to lose the China 2.0 shock -- undermining economic relations with allies, disinvesting from chokepoint technologies, and opening up space for China to bolster its international economic ties.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
Opinion | We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.
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