“…Meanwhile, much of China's own geostrategic discourse surrounding the Belt and Road Initiative has been reworking geoeconomic visions of peaceful global integration-albeit with the Middle Kingdom in the Beijing-dominated middle-that previously provided cover for the hegemony-building geopolitics of Pax Americana (compare Flint & Zhu, 2019;Lee et al, 2017;Lin et al, 2021;Richardson, 2021;Zhang & Wen, 2022;with Essex, 2013;Morrissey, 2017;Sparke, 2005). It is in this contentious contemporary context that Felix Mallin and James Sidaway have shared with readers of Transactions their remarkable study of a much earlier appeal to geoeconomics that has previously been overlooked (Mallin & Sidaway, 2023a). Thanks to historical geographers such as Mona Domosh, we already knew that the sorts of post-Cold War geoeconomic discourse that took off after 1989 had a long pre-history tied to older rounds of globalisation in the early-twentieth century (Domosh, 2013).…”