Mohamad Forough
geoeconomics.bsky.social
Mohamad Forough
@geoeconomics.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Global History and IR at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)
PhD in IR
Based in the Hague
Interests:
Critical geography, global history, geoeconomics, infrastructure, cyber/tech, China, Middle East, Iran
Pinned
✍️✨✍️happy to share that my most recent article has been published in The Review of International Political Economy.
It shows how connectivity/infrastructural discourses reorder global politics and produce new geopolitical & hegemonic dynamics.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The empty signifier of ‘connectivity’: how infrastructure reorders the world
‘Connectivity’ has emerged as a global buzzword for large-scale infrastructure initiatives but remains under-theorised. This paper addresses this gap by conceptualising connectivity as an ‘empty si...
www.tandfonline.com
✍️✨✍️happy to share that my most recent article has been published in The Review of International Political Economy.
It shows how connectivity/infrastructural discourses reorder global politics and produce new geopolitical & hegemonic dynamics.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The empty signifier of ‘connectivity’: how infrastructure reorders the world
‘Connectivity’ has emerged as a global buzzword for large-scale infrastructure initiatives but remains under-theorised. This paper addresses this gap by conceptualising connectivity as an ‘empty si...
www.tandfonline.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM