Colin Flint
Utah State University
13 Papers
18 Citations
Colin Flint is an academic researcher from Utah State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Political geography & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 13 publications.
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Papers
The Geopolitics of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a special section focusing specifically on the geopolitics of the MSRI that stems from a workshop hosted in November 2015 in Shanghai, along with a summary of the current literature discussing the project, and dominant geopolitical representations.
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The geopolitics of connectivity, cooperation, and hegemonic competition: The Belt and Road Initiative
Colin Flint,Cuiping Zhu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the economic and political processes and goals of the BRI are inseparable, and they build upon the strategic coupling and Global Production Networks literature to show that the territorial arrangements of GPNs have local, regional, and global implications.
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Historical–Geopolitical Contexts and the Transformation of Chinese Foreign Policy
Colin Flint,Zhang Xiaotong +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define a political geography perspective within a world-systems analysis that creates a Space-Time matrix of context based on the core-periphery hierarchy of the capitalist world economy and economic and hegemonic cycles.
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South-South Cooperation or Core-Periphery Contention? Ghanaian and Zambian Perceptions of Economic Relations with China
Colin Flint,Madeleine Waddoups +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the geopolitics of development through an examination of development assistance to two African countries as a mechanism of competition between China and the US, and the processes of compet...
Putting the “geo” into geopolitics: a heuristic framework and the example of Australian foreign policy
TL;DR: In this paper, a heuristic framework is proposed to understand the geo in geopolitics by integrating economic and strategic processes with transformations of physical geography by emphasizing the role of context and the mutual construction of geography and politics.
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