The abolition of the artificial impediments of cross-border interaction has produced a new EU regional socioeconomic map, releasing dynamics that have influenced significantly the EU socioeconomic space. Especially at the borderlands, a new mix of opportunities and threats has come forth,...

Pueblo, city, empire -- Organizing capital and controlling race and labor -- Revolution around the corner and across the border -- Like Cuba and the Philippines -- Against capital and foreigners -- Highway for the hemisphere

"This book on the Belt and Road Initiative is written from an unusual perspective and by someone who was born in India but raised in Singapore; who has never spent a day of schooling in the greater China (Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) but has Chinese heritage; who eventually built a long...