Beyond Energy: Trade and Transport in a Reconnecting Eurasia (Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection)

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 Ce ntral Asia and the European Union.