CSR Blog: China’s Western Horizon: Interview with Professor Daniel Markey

By Jacob Larsen Daniel Markey is a senior research professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He also serves as the academic director of the Johns Hopkins SAIS Global Policy Program. Dr. Markey’s latest book, China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia (Oxford University Press, 2020), assesses the …

CSR Blog: Book Review: Jonathan Hillman’s The Emperor’s New Road

By Jacob Larsen Jonathan Hillman’s The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century (Yale University Press, September, 2020) catalogues the difficulties faced by the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as well as the problems it creates.  Hillman’s brief introductory chapter describes the sheer scale of the BRI, and lays out his two …