CfP for Panel: “The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) across the Indian Ocean: Activities and Repercussions of China’s Strategic Initiative from Southeast Asia to Africa”

Dear All,

My colleagues Dr. Alfred Gerstl (Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES), Vienna, Austria), Dr. Maria Strasakova (Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic), and I would like to inivite papers for our panel entitled

“The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) across the Indian Ocean: Activities and Repercussions of China’s Strategic Initiative from Southeast Asia to Africa”.

The Panel will be held at the ASEAS-UK Conference at the University of Leeds, 5-7 Sept. 2018. ASEAS is the Association for Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom. Please find the conference website here (http://aseasuk.org.uk/4/a/conference-2018). A description of our panel is here (http://aseasuk.org.uk/4/sites/default/files/files/9%20Graf%2C%20Gerstl%20%26%20Strasakova%20BRI%20across%20Indian%20Ocean.pdf).

The deadline for submission of paper abstracts to arndtgraf@yahoo.de is 31 May 2018.

Please distribute this CfP widely.

Best regards,

Arndt Graf, Alfred Gerstl and Maria Strasakova

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Prof. Dr. Arndt Graf
Speaker (with Prof. Dr. Frank Schulze-Engler), BMBF Research Project “Africa’s Asian Options” (AFRASO), www.afraso.org
Chair, Dept. of Southeast Asian Studies, http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb/fb09/ophil/suedostasienwissenschaften/
Goethe-University of Frankfurt Senckenberganlage 31, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
Phone: ++49-69-798-23643 Fax: ++49-69-798-28445 Email: arndtgraf@yahoo.de