This book demonstrates how infrastructure projects and the communications thereof are strategized by rising powers to envision progress, to enhance the actor-s international identity, and to substantiate and leverage the actor-s vision of international order. While the physical aspects of infrastructure are important, infrastructure communication in international relations demands more scholarly attention.
Using a case-study approach, Carolijn van Noort examines how rising powers communicate about infrastructure internationally and discusses the significance of these communication practices. The four case studies include BRICS-s summit communications about infrastructure, Brazil-s infrastructure promises to Africa, China-s communication of the Belt and Road Initiative in East Africa, and Kazakhstan-s news media coverage of China-s Belt and Road Initiative. Van Noort highlights the fact that the link between infrastructure, identity, and order-making is arbitrary and thus conte
