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Invited talk by Dr Andrea Ghiselli: Building the Belt and Road Initiative, An Empirical Exploration
Since its launch in 2013, China’s Belt and RoadInitiative has attracted considerable attention from scholars and policymakers. However, the study of this initiative from a quantitative perspective has long been hindered by the lack of comprehensive empirical data. In this lecture, I will introduce a new global panel country-year dataset on construction and engineering, labor services, and design and consulting contracts signed by Chinese companies abroad between 2001 and 2019. After the discussion of how this dataset differs from others that are already available to the academic community, I will present the findings of one of the first research projects based on the new data, showing how the regime type of partner countries shapes China’s human footprint overseas.
Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: From Local to Global
This 90-minute online workshop showcased emerging research into two instances of online public deliberation on questions of how to respond to the climate emergency: the Devon Climate Assembly and the Global Climate Assembly. The talks addressed the role of citizens’ assemblies in shaping climate policy, questions of scale in creating online deliberative mechanisms, and the use of citizens’ assemblies in creating cross-cultural dialogue on climate issues.
Citizen Empowerment in Global Perspective
The Exeter-Fudan Global Thought Network’s first workshop for the citizens’ empowerment and participation stream focused on showcasing and interrogating citizen empowerment in the 21st Century in both liberal and non-liberal contexts and from both normative and practice-oriented perspectives. It brought together academics from a variety of sub-disciplines ranging from public administration, political theory, comparative politics and international relations, with the aim of sharing ideas and research on citizen empowerment to bridge sub-disciplinary boundaries.