Corridors of Capital: Competing Systems of Financing and Worldmaking in Eurasia

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and Kazakhstan-China (KzC) oil pipelines are not simply infrastructures for moving hydrocarbons across vast distances; they are worldmaking devices that inscribe political rationalities, financial architectures, and territorial regimes onto the landscapes of post-Soviet Eurasia (Figure 1). While their physical purpose is to carry crude oil, these pipelines’ political…