How groundbreaking infrastructure projects will shape cities and geopolitics.

An exploration of how China’s Belt and Road Initiative seeks to reshape international order and how it has catalyzed a new era of infrastructural geopolitics.

From the pivotal impact cities had on global public health strategy during the height of the pandemic to today’s city-to-city partnerships that generate aid and shelter for refugees fleeing the war on Ukraine—subnational diplomacy creates real, tangible impacts on the geopolitical order.