The New Silk Road, Global Dynamics&Energy

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 5, 47 - 66, 20.12.2017

Oğuzhan Akyener

Abstract

International dynamics are giving important
clues about the world is standing at the edge of huge global changes. Brutal
struggles and conflicts between the key global players can be observed
everywhere. And while West is economically and politically weakening or having
declining growth rates, in contrast east is swiftly strengthening.

In this scenario, by compiling the global key
issues;

·        
US
is leaving its global commercial leadership to the new softer power China.

·        
EU
is losing power after Brexit and increasing nationalist perceptions in the
union members make the danger bells ring louder.

·        
The
conflicts between the old allies US & UK in the Middle East policies
starting through the Arab Spring era are emerged nearly in every global
affairs.

·        
Pentagon
with the careful and successful spurts, taken the control of US and put a new
roadmap to continue US’s global leadership.

·        
US’s
new more realistic global strategies startled the liberal finance barons and
the global investors.

·        
And
this new concern make all the sides to wait for the further results of the
struggle.

In such an environment, China declared a new
approach with a name of               “One
Belt One Road (OBOR)”, which also be called as the New Silk Road Project.

And just after this declaration, the disturbance
and the complexity rates in the regional and the global dynamics have
accelerated.

From this view, in this study, by defining the
general frames of the new silk road project, the commercial – political and
energy aspects will tried to analyzed. In addition the struggle between the global
key players related with this project; such as US & China will be
evaluated. After this evaluation, OBOR will be analyzed from the sight of
Turkey.

Keywords

energy, china, us, uk, policies, economics, world order, silk road, obor, turkey, caspian

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