主讲人：贾尔斯·莫汉 英国开放大学国际发展教授
主持人：徐秀丽 中国农业大学国际发展与全球农业学院院长，人文与发展学院教授
讲座时间：2025年6月9日（星期一）10:00-11:30
讲座地点：中国农业大学（东校区）新图书馆7318室
讲座语言：英文
讲座内容：随着中美之间地缘政治竞争的加剧，基础设施融资与建设已成为两国角力的领域。中国的”一带一路“倡议引发了美国的“重建更美好世界”计划以及欧盟的“全球门户”倡议。基础设施项目常成为西方国家对中国日益警惕的焦点，这种警惕已演变为要求“降低风险”的呼声，涉及来自中国的供应链及对内投资。中国进入非洲、欧洲等地的发展融资与基础设施投资领域，质疑了长期以来对“发展”的固有认知。中国直到最近仍是发展中国家，而欧洲作为殖民主义的中心，长期掌握着塑造世界知识体系的权力。然而，中国投资为非洲和欧洲那些缺失或老化的基础设施提供了助力，这可能颠覆了关于“谁在实施发展”、“针对谁”以及“发展在何处发生”的传统假设。本次讲座将结合近期关于“全球发展”的思考，旨在探讨一个更加相互依存和“趋同”的世界，这种视角可能模糊全球南北之间的界限。通过非洲和欧洲的案例，分析不同地缘政治和经济议程如何通过中国支持的基础设施项目得以体现，并对那些跨越地理尺度的发展理论方法的价值进行反思。
主讲人简介：贾尔斯·莫汉是英国开放大学（The Open University）的国际发展学教授，在过去的35年中在英国担任过多个学术职位。他近期的研究关注中国与非洲的合作，并获得了英国科研资助机构的大力支持。贾尔斯目前由欧洲研究委员会（ERC）资助的 REDEFINE 项目在此前中非合作研究成果的基础上，进一步跟进中国对欧洲投资的影响。他的学术成果发表于人文地理学、发展研究和非洲研究领域的顶级期刊。
Title: Re-orienting global development: Chinese infrastructure investment in Africa and Europe
Speaker: Giles Mohan, Professor of International Development at the Open University
Moderator: Xu Xiuli Dean of CIDGA, Professor of COHD, CAU
Time: 10:00-11:30, Monday, June 9, 2025
Venue: Room 7318, New library, East Campus of CAU
Language: English
Synopsis: The growing geopolitical rivalry between the US and China has seen infrastructure financing and construction as an arena for competition. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has been met with America’s Build Back Better World and the European Union’s Global Gateway. Infrastructure projects often become the lightning rods for an enhanced wariness towards China among Western actors which has coalesced into calls to ‘de-risk’ supply chains and inward investments from China. China’s entry into development finance and infrastructure investments in Africa, Europe and elsewhere questions long-standing framings of ‘development’. China was until recently a developing country and Europe has been the heartland of colonialism, and with that the power to shape knowledges about the world. But absent or ailing infrastructures, for example, are getting boosts from Chinese investment which potentially flips some of these assumptions about who is ’doing’ development, ‘to whom’, and ‘where’ is it occurring. In this presentation I engage with recent thinking on ‘global development’ aimed at understanding a more interdependent and ‘convergent’ world that potentially blurs the lines between global North and South. Using examples from Africa and Europe I examine how different geopolitical and economic agendas played out through Chinese-backed infrastructure projects, and reflect on the value of theoretical approaches to development which think across geographical scales.
Introduction to the Speaker: Giles Mohan is Professor of International Development at the Open University and has held various UK academic posts over the past 35 years. Recent work has addressed China’s engagement with Africa supported by a series of large grants from UK funding councils. Giles’ current ERC-funded REDEFINE project builds on this China-Africa work to track the implications of Chinese investment in Europe. He has published in leading human geography, Development Studies, and African Studies journals.