The New Silk Road, Global Dynamics&Energy

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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