1. Introduction: Geopolitics, Infrastructure, and the Emergent Geographies of USChina Competition - Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler Part I: Grounding Infrastructural Rivalry 2. Mediating the Infrastructure State: The Role of Local Bureaucrats in East Africas Infrastructure Scramble - Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, and Masalu Luhula 3. Roads, Debt, and Kyrgyzstans Quest for Geopolitical Kinship - Rune Steenberg, Ulan Shamshiev, and Farzana Abdilashimova 4. Chinese Investment Meets Zambian Policy: The Planning and Design of Multifacility Economic Zones in Lusaka - Dorothy Tang 5. Infrastructure as Symbolic Geopolitical Architecture: Kenyas Megaprojects and Contested Meanings of Development - Wangui Kimari and Gediminas Lesutis Interlude: The Emergence of a Sino-Centric Transnational Capitalist Class? - Steve Rolf Part II: Infrastructural Governance and State Restructuring 6. Contradictory Infrastructures and Military (D)Alliance: Philippine Elite Coalitions and Their Response to USChina Competition - Alvin Camba, Jerik Cruz, and Guanie Lim 7. Infrastructure-Led Development with Post-Neoliberal Characteristics: Buen Vivir, China, and Extractivism in Ecuador - Nicholas Jepson 8. Centralizing Infrastructure in a Fragmenting Polity: China and Ethiopias Infrastructure State - Zhengli Huang and Tom Goodfellow 9. Radioactive Strategies: Geopolitical Rivalries, African Agency, and the Longue Duree of Nuclear Infrastructures in Namibia - Meredith J. DeBoom 10. Argentina and the Spatial Politics of Extractive Infrastructures under USChina Tensions - Marcelo I. Saguier and Maximiliano F. Vila Seoane 11. Turkey Between Two Worlds: EU Accession and the Middle Corridor to Central Asia - Mustafa Kemal Bayrbag and Seth Schindler 12. Multipolar Infrastructures and Mosaic Geopolitics in Laos - Jessica DiCarlo and Micah Ingalls Interlude: Locating Host-Country Agency and Hedging in Infrastructure Cooperation - Cheng-Chwee Kuik Part III: Geopolitics and State Spatial Strategies 13. Himalayan Geopolitical Competition and the Agency of the Infrastructure State in Nepal - Dinesh Paudel and Katharine Rankin 14. Indonesias Beauty Contest: China, Japan, the US, and Jakartas Spatial Objectives - Angela Tritto, Mary Silaban, and Alvin Camba 15. Vietnams Spatial and Hedging Strategies in Response to Chinese and Japanese Infrastructural Statecraft - Jessica C. Liao 16. Diversifying Dependencies? Hungary, the EU, and the Multifaceted Geopolitics of Chinese Infrastructure Investments - Ferenc Gyuris 17. 'No One Stole Anyone Elses Cheese: The Politics of Infrastructural Competition in Kazakhstan - Jessica Neafie 18. Outer Space Infrastructures - Julie Klinger 19. Conclusion: 21st-Century Third Worldism? - Seth Schindler and Jessica DiCarlo
