Will the increased economic connectivity across the Eurasian
supercontinent transform Europe into the western peninsula of Greater
Eurasia? The unipolar era entailed the US organising the two other
major economic regions of the world, Europe and Asia, under US
leadership. The rise of “the rest”, primarily Asia with China at
the centre, has ended the unipolar era and even 500-years of Western
dominance. China and Russia are leading efforts to integrate Europe
and Asia into one large region. The Greater Eurasian region is
constructed with three categories of economic connectivity –
strategic industries built on new and disruptive technologies;
physical connectivity with bimodal transportation corridors; and
financial connectivity with new development banks, trading currencies
and payments systems. China strives for geoeconomic leadership by
replacing the US leadership position, while Russia endeavours to
reposition itself from the dual periphery of Europe and Asia to the
centre of a grand Eurasian geoeconomic constellation. Europe,
positioned between the trans-Atlantic region and Greater Eurasia, has
to adapt to the new international distribution of power to preserve
its strategic autonomy.
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9781538161777
Publisert
2021
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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