Beyond Energy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIV

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2. Introduction

   • Jacopo Maria Pepe

   Pages 1-29

3. Theoretical Framework

   • Jacopo Maria Pepe

   Pages 31-76

4. Eurasia before Europe: Trade, Transport and Power Dynamics in the Early World System (1st Century BC – 14th Century AD)

   • Jacopo Maria Pepe

   Pages 77-115

5. Shifting Trade Flows and Centers of Economic Power in 21st Century Eurasia: Toward a Rimland-led Unified System

   • Jacopo Maria Pepe

   Pages 117-245

6. Eurasian Transport Integration Beyond Energy: Geoeconomic Transformation and Geostrategic Response

   • Jacopo Maria Pepe

   Pages 247-430

7. Back Matter

   Pages 431-486

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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.

• Non Energy Transport Infrastructure
• Eurasian Transport Corridors
• Rail and Logistics
• Rimland/Heartland-Theory
• Eurasian History
• Structural Transformation of the Eurasian Continent
• Trade and Transport in Eurasia
• Reconnecting Eurasia
• Geoeconomics

• Berlin Centre for Caspian Region Studies, Berlin, Germany

  Jacopo Maria Pepe

Jacopo Maria Pepe is currently Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and Adjunct Professor at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, Washington-DC. Previously he has worked as a research associate and lecturer at the Berlin Centre for Caspian Region Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

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