Geopolitical Dimension of the Old and the Modern Silk Road
Journal Title: The journal of international civilization studies - Year 2023, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
The old Silk Road, that connected the West and East, was a center of cultural and trade interaction in the Asian continent from China to the Mediterranean Sea, but in 2013 it was referred by the Chinese president Xi Jinping as “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR), which announced that China would fund a New Silk Road Economic Belt across Eurasia to connect China with Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. Different from the old Silk Road, current Silk Road includes the flow of financial services, information, technology as well as the Chinese initiative to strengthen connectivity in Central Asia and beyond. Comparing the modern Silk Road with the old Silk Road, in this paper we focus on China’s regional and international expansion, and the relevance of new Silk Road as one of the current largest programmes of economic diplomacy. Thereby, by using the qualitative descriptive methodology and interdisciplinary approach, this paper demonstrates that the new Silk Road comprises a new global order; therefore, it must be seen as the link between the past, present, and future. That is why its concept must be analyzed with reference to the old Silk Road, but also in wider geopolitical context.
Authors and Affiliations
Sanja STOŠİĆ
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP717143
- DOI https://doi.org/10.58648/inciss.1261184
- Views 64
- Downloads 0
The role of the press in the cultural identity representation of the Uyghur people: the case of “Ittipak” Newspaper in Kyrgyzstan
Mass media contribute to the formation of public awareness by bringing the cultural, social, economic, and political problems of a society to the agenda. The function of newspapers in preserving and handing cultural valu...
The Development of the Serfdom System and the Emergence of the Kulaks
Serf is the name given to a peasant who works on behalf of a landlord on the land allocated to him in the Russian Empire. In this system, which is very similar to the slave system, the most important difference between s...
National Brand Communication Management in the Context of Public Diplomacy
Today, when public opinion is demonstrated to be an important instrument of foreign policy, the increasing level of democratization is cited as one of the most important reasons for this. It is clear that publicizing the...
The Role of Research Universities in Turkish Higher Education
The place of research universities in higher education is essential as they contribute to the scientific and technological development of the country and offer pioneering education to students. These universities often h...
Changing the Channe of Talent: Child Education in the Thought of Early Republican Period Writers İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu and Ali Kami Akyüz
In the early republican period, the question of what kind of society we wanted was not independent of what kind of education we wanted. The young republic realized its most important reforms in the field of education in...