Just-in-Time Imperialism: The Logistics Revolution and the Vietnam War

Attewell, Wesley

doi:10.1080/24694452.2020.1813540

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“…In the critical geography literature on maritime transportation and logistics, the state has been conceived competing to secure the circulation of goods and the openness of strategic trade routes (Cowen, 2014;Khalili, 2020;Campling and Colás, 2021). For example, containerization and the Vietnam War went hand in hand reveals the leading role of the US in establishing the contours of the global trading system (Attewell, 2021;Chung, 2019). In jockeying for hegemony, and through the ties between shipping and logistics and war and politics, states play a central role in underpinning the global flow of commodities through different means, including SOEs that carry the goods, large contracts and subsidies provided to national carriers, and the securitization of international spaces for the benefit of states' trade and geopolitical interests (Lin, 2019).…”

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State Capitalism and Spanish port development along the Maritime Silk Road

Jensen

2022

Environ Plan A

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With the rise of ‘new’ state capitalisms, control over transport infrastructure has returned to the forefront of competition in the global economy. This article investigates how different state capitalisms interact to enable economic developments in ports. It tracks the relationship between state-owned firms in the shipping and ports sectors through a case study of the port of Valencia in Spain and COSCO shipping group. The article identifies state capitalisms as variegated and relational to analyze the ways in which qualitatively different state capitalist dynamics interact at different scales. The article identifies two state capitalist dynamics which have been dominant in determining relations between Spanish and Chinese state capitalisms: 1) A commercial dynamic of maximizing Spanish ports profits by establishing new relationships with Chinese firms; and 2) an expansionary dynamic of increasing market share of Chinese state-owned firms in European shipping markets. These two dynamics are synergistic and have contributed to the competitiveness of Spanish ports and Chinese shipping firms by providing new capital to the port of Valencia and expanding the port's profile as a hub in the eastern Mediterranean, while also further solidifying COSCO's position in European shipping markets and its internalization and vertical integration strategy.

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State Capitalism and Spanish port development along the Maritime Silk Road

Jensen

2022

Environ Plan A

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“…In the critical geography literature on maritime transportation and logistics, the state has been conceived competing to secure the circulation of goods and the openness of strategic trade routes . For example, containerization and the Vietnam War went hand in hand reveals the leading role of the US in establishing the contours of the global trading system (Chung, 2019;Attewell 2021). In jockeying for hegemony, and through the ties between shipping and logistics and war and politics, states play a central role in underpinning the global flow of commodities through different means, including SOEs that carry the goods, large contracts and subsidies provided to national carriers, and the securitization of international spaces for the benefit of states' trade and geopolitical interests .…”

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Who Rules the Waves in the 21st Century? The International Political Economy of Global Shipping

Jensen

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As geoeconomic competition intensifies, trade and investment relations between China and other industrialized nations have been put into question. As the key infrastructure of trade, shipping is a source of economic and political power in the global economy. Shipping is key for economic development and the facilitation of economic globalization. Shipping and naval superiority also play a role in power projections by states in the international arena. This is complicated by the fact that shipping services are a market with an ill-defined jurisdictional paradigm, its own dynamics of wealth creation, peculiar firm competition, and its own crisis tendencies. Global political conflicts have reflected on to the shipping industry on several occasions, closures in the Suez Canal or strikes in ports represent instances of the interrelation between political economy and shipping markets. This dissertation contributes to the literature on the economic and political consequences of global investments in infrastructures by exploring complex state-capital relationships in the global shipping and logistics industries. Following the shipping industry makes it clear the ways in which capital accumulation (and crisis thereof) in transport markets affect the international political economy and vice-versa. Empirically, this dissertation studies the underlying socio-economic processes of the China challenge to ‘the freedom of the seas’ shipping regime upheld by American naval superiority post WWII. In doing so, this dissertation demonstrates the domestic political economy reasons for the expansion of transportation infrastructures and logistics markets within and outside China as a state strategy to rebalance the Chinese economy. The dissertation then showcases the effects Chinese policy has in other countries, both economically and politically, through the study of investments within the Maritime Silk Road initiative in Europe and the synergies between Chinese and European states’ strategies for logistics development. Finally, the dissertation explores the geoeconomic consequences of Chinese expansion in global shipping markets, which has led states recalibrate geoeconomic calculations in the global economy.

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War Travels: The Logistics of Vietnam War Militourism

Attewell

2024

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Just-in-Time Imperialism: The Logistics Revolution and the Vietnam War

Cited by 5 publications

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State Capitalism and Spanish port development along the Maritime Silk Road

State Capitalism and Spanish port development along the Maritime Silk Road

Who Rules the Waves in the 21st Century? The International Political Economy of Global Shipping

War Travels: The Logistics of Vietnam War Militourism

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