Belt and Road Initiative

Bogdan, Olena; Najdov, Evgenij

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“…Baku endorsed the BRI from the very beginning. President Aliyev paid a visit to China in December 2015 where he signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Joint Promotion of the "Silk Road Economic Belt" between the government of Azerbaijan and China (Bogdan and Najdov 2020). The two governments later agreed on additional investment projects with a total amount of $821 million.…”

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“…Azerbaijan is considered to be a part of the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor, chiefly the Trans-Caucasus Transit Corridor (TCTC) linking China with Europe. This corridor is seen as an alternative to the northern Russian route (Bogdan and Najdov 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite opportunities and expectations that "China will likely expand cooperation through investing in logistics and infrastructure projects" (Shahbazov 2018), all infrastructure projects along this Middle Corridor were funded by the Azerbaijani government, including the new Baku port in Alat and the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway. China has so far invested little into this project (Bogdan and Najdov 2020). As Mardell (2019) noted, "the BKT is often associated with the BRI in official statements, but neither Chinese finance nor Chinese companies were involved.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The vision of this integration initiative, as envisaged by Baku, to be successful requires massive capital investment, which can only come from large economies such as China. However, China has so far invested very little, and most of the regional connectivity projects were funded by Azerbaijan (Bogdan and Najdov 2020). The unlocking of the Trans-Caspian Corridor's potential also requires neutralizing potential spoilers such as Russia and Iran.…”

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Presidential Discourses on Regionalism in Azerbaijan: Turkic Solidarity and the Silk Road

Guliyev

2024

Nationalities Papers

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Drawing on theories of comparative regionalism, this article examines the construction of regionalist frames in Azerbaijan covering the period from 1993 to mid-2023. By examining more than 60 text passages from presidential speeches and statements, the study identifies two framings of regionalism that have dominated presidential discourses in Azerbaijan: the discourse of Turkic solidarity or unity (in the political-security domain) and the narrative of an East-West corridor or the revival of the Silk Road for transport of cargo and hydrocarbon resources (in the economic domain). By constructing these discursive frames, Azerbaijani state leaders crafted an alternative regional order reconstituting the geographic category of “South Caucasus” into a new, spatially broader area. In this formulation, “South Caucasus” is viewed as a central pillar of the Silk Road, and Azerbaijan as one of its focal points or nodes. While the study underscores a key role that actors and ideas play in the formation of regions and regional institutions, it also highlights how social construction of regional identities is embedded in and shaped by historical experiences and country-specific political-economic conditions such as historical memories, experiences of war, collective identities and cultural affinities, geographic location, domestic political economic structures, and international linkages.

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Section: Explaining Economic Regionalism Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Explaining Economic Regionalism Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Explaining Economic Regionalism Discoursementioning

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Presidential Discourses on Regionalism in Azerbaijan: Turkic Solidarity and the Silk Road

Guliyev

2024

Nationalities Papers

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“…The rest of the world would suffer a reduction in trade of 0.004 percent. Case studies for specific countries have equally portrayed a potential for positive impact for specific geographies (see Bogdan and Najdov (2020) for an analysis on Azerbaijan, Li (2018) for Russia).…”

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Global Trends in Countries' Perceptions of the Belt and Road Initiative

Garcia-Herrero,

Schindowski

2023

SSRN Journal

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Securing the Long-Chain of Cyber-Physical Global Communication Infrastructure

Choucri

Agarwal

2019

2019 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST)

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Executive Order, May 2019 states: "…foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology and services … in order to commit malicious cyber-enabled actions, including economic and industrial espionage against the United States and its people." [1] This paper focuses on the challenges of securing the long chain of global communication infrastructure, presents some illustrative data, and puts forth a multi-method research design for analysis of long-chain systems of information and/or communications technology, infrastructure, services, ownership, providers, and networks --within a state and outside its jurisdiction -all essential for unimpeded global operations. A proof of concept for data requirements to support end-to-end integrated research is provided, along with highlights of some initial empirical analysis, with China as a case in point.

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Belt and Road Initiative

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Presidential Discourses on Regionalism in Azerbaijan: Turkic Solidarity and the Silk Road

Presidential Discourses on Regionalism in Azerbaijan: Turkic Solidarity and the Silk Road

Global Trends in Countries' Perceptions of the Belt and Road Initiative

Securing the Long-Chain of Cyber-Physical Global Communication Infrastructure

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