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Beyond Energy

Trade and Transport in a Reconnecting Eurasia

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Jacopo Maria Pepe examines the rapid development of non-energy transport infrastructure in the broader Eurasian space. By doing so, the author considers the ongoing structural transformation of the Eurasian continent against the backdrop of deepening commercial interconnectivity in Eurasia into broader areas of trade, supported by the rapid development of rail connectivity. He frames this process in a long-wave historical analysis and considers in detail the geopolitical, geo-economic, and theoretical implications of deepening physical connectivity for the relationships among China, Russia, Central Asia, and the European Union.

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Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Introduction
Abstract
In the past twenty years, the Asia-Pacific region, with China and India at its core, has emerged as the growing center of the world economy and as the new commercial and industrial powerhouse of the international system. For its part, the West, and particularly Europe, seems to have lost its economic, commercial and political centrality. In the past decade, owing to constant, sustained (and until 2010 double-digit) GDP-growth, China has become the second biggest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP, the center of the Asian production network, the leading exporting nation in the world, and the largest importer of crude oil and other liquid fuels.
Jacopo Maria Pepe
Chapter 2. Theoretical Framework
Abstract
The complexity of the present work requires a theory mix. Drawing on and critically rediscussing classical geopolitical theories this mix combines elements of geopolitics with international relations, international political economcy and historical theories. Owing to the character of the chosen approach and the scarcity of theory-founded analysis regarding non-energy transport issues in the Eurasian space, this book will discuss each of the presented theories, modify and redefine them, in order to develop the categories that structure the analysis.
Jacopo Maria Pepe
Chapter 3. Eurasia before Europe: Trade, Transport and Power Dynamics in the Early World System (1st Century BC – 14th Century AD)
Abstract
The geopolitical change currently taking place in Eurasia is characterized by a converging process of expanding hegemonies at both regional and continental level. The emergence of a multipolar continental system is rebalancing the distribution of power among different Eurasian sub-regions, with the European subregion, and the Atlantic basin suffering a relative marginalization.
Jacopo Maria Pepe
Chapter 4. Shifting Trade Flows and Centers of Economic Power in 21st Century Eurasia: Toward a Rimland-led Unified System
Abstract
For the past 20 years Eurasia has been experiencing an economic “re-structuration” whose far-reaching implications and global relevance can be compared to the process that led to the emergence of the “European” world system between the 14th and the 15th Centuries.
Jacopo Maria Pepe
Chapter 5. Eurasian Transport Integration Beyond Energy: Geoeconomic Transformation and Geostrategic Response
Abstract
The shift in Eurasian trade flows and the re-emergence of both intra-Rimland and Heartland–Rimland trade interconnections follow a major change in the geography of the Eurasian political economy. This shift was stimulated by widespread, strong economic growth across the entire Eurasian continent until 2008 and by more “normal” growth rates in the years following the crisis. Since the early 2000s, Eurasian economic growth has been on average more rapid than world growth, and growth in Europe and in the US.
Jacopo Maria Pepe
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Beyond Energy
verfasst von
Dr. Jacopo Maria Pepe
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Electronic ISBN
978-3-658-20192-0
Print ISBN
978-3-658-20191-3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20192-0

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