25th February 2025 to 26th February 2025
Welcome to the Researching Global China Conference, with this year’s theme looking at methodologies around Innovation and Challenges.
23rd January 2025
Come along to our seminar and hear Dr Viktor Eszterhai from John Lukacs Institute for Strategy and Politics speak on: Chinese Investment Boom in Hungary: Semi-Peripheral Perspectives and Implications for European Identity.
14th March 2024
Come along to our seminar and hear Dr Keyi Tang from the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, speak on: Democracy, Distributive Politics, and Development Finance: Evidence from Africa.
28th February 2024
The roundtable presents ongoing work of the REDEFINE project based in SSGS. Our take on the political economy of global China moves beyond the grand geopolitical narratives to explore the often long-standing and hidden processes of connection.
12th October 2023
The Open University and York University present a monthly webinar series featuring graduate students and early career scholars.
22nd June 2023
Come along to our seminar on the 22 June from 12:30 to 14:00 (GMT) and hear Dr Mariasole Pepa from the University of Padova, Italy, and Professor Giles Mohan, REDEFINE project, Chair, FASS at The Open University (Discussant)
15th June 2023
Co-hosted by the REDEFINE Project and the GCSJ Centre, this China/Europe and the Changing Global Order Seminar Series features the talk from Giles Mohan, Ran Hu & Weiwei Chen on "Re-orienting global development: the multiscalar narratives of Chinese infrastructure investment in Europe".
10th November 2022
This talk focuses on the paper that develops the notion of ‘state platform capitalism’ to explain the idiosyncrasies of the current conflagration between China and the US.
6th October 2022
Chinese firms have borne a conspicuous mark on the Ethiopian landscape since their entry as contractors in the 1990s and as investors in the 2000s. This talk explores the silent bearings of Chinese capital, backed by state power, on land law and policy in Ethiopia.
8th September 2022
Growing geo-economic tensions between liberal-western powers and China are closely related to the peculiarities of China’s political-economic system, especially to the central role of the party-state in directing economic activity. This talk presents the work that aims to examine the magnitude and functioning of different mechanisms of party-state influence on corporate decisions empirically.
