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This book explores the opportunities and challenges that both Europe and Asia face under the framework of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative. The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSR Initiative), put forward by the Chinese government together with the Silk Road Economic Belt, reflects China's ambition and vision to shape the global economic and political order. The first step and priority under the MSR Initiative, according to documents issued by China, is to build three 'Blue Economic Passages' linking China with the rest of the world at sea, two of which will connect China with Europe. This initiative, however, still faces enormous challenges of geopolitical suspicion and security risks. This book seeks to assess these risks and their causes for the cooperation between the Eurasian countries under the framework of MSR and puts forward suggestions to deal with these risks in the interdisciplinary perspectives of international relations and international law. Featuring a global team of contributors, this book will be of much interest to students of Asian politics, maritime security, international law and international relations.

Trade routes --- Silk Road.

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In Christ Came Forth From India, Timothy Paul Grove offers a survey and contextualiztion of early modern Georgian writings on astrology, astronomy, and cosmology. These texts include the widely distributed translations of the Almanacco Perpetuo of Ottavio Beltrano (1653), a text brought to the Caucasus by Roman Catholic missionaries, several texts attributed to King Vakht'ang VI of Kartli (1675-1737), and two 19th century manuscripts which incorporate much older material. The numerous Georgian texts are described and examined in terms of their chronology and interrelated content, their literary relationship to texts from outside the Caucasus, and their context within the astrological literature of Europe, the Near East, and the Far East.

Caucasus --- Silk Road --- Seidenstraße --- Vakht'ang VI --- Theatines --- Beltrano --- Benincasa --- Vainakh --- Armenian --- Divination --- Meteorology

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Il fut un temps ou tous les chemins menaient a Rome... Aujourd'hui, ils menent a Pekin. L'Europe peine a penser son avenir face aux populismes et aux crises migratoires, tandis que les Etats-Unis ont engage un retrait inedit des affaires internationales, au risque de menacer d'anciens allies. Pendant ce temps, un vent d'espoir souffle le long des antiques routes de la soie. Du Moyen-Orient a la Chine, de la Russie a l'Iran, les echanges se multiplient, les pays cooperent et de nouvelles alliances sont scellees, faisant fi d'antagonismes depasses. Le contraste est saisissant avec ce qui se joue à l'Ouest. L'auteur brosse le tableau aux mille nuances du monde actuel et explique pourquoi il est essentiel d'en comprendre les bouleversements.

ASIA--FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS --- INTERNATIONAL TRADE --- TRADE ROUTES--ASIA --- SILK ROAD --- Orient et Occident --- Nouvelles routes de la soie. --- Routes commerciales --- Conditions économiques --- Relations économiques extérieures

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Long before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges already existed across Asia and Eurasia. The dynamics of such trade and resource flows have largely been outside state control, and are pushed to the realm of the shadow economy. The official initiative is a state-driven attempt to enhance the orderly flow of resources across countries along the Belt and Road, hence extending the reach of the states to the shadow economies. This volume offers a bottom-up view of the transborder informal exchanges across Asia and Eurasia, and analyses its clash and mesh with the state-orchestrated Belt and Road cooperation. By undertaking a comparative study of country cases along the new silk roads, the book underlines the intended and unintended consequences of such competing routes of connectivity on the socio-economic conditions of local communities.

Informal sector (Economics) --- Asia --- Eurasia --- Commerce --- E-books --- Hidden economy --- Parallel economy --- Second economy --- Shadow economy --- Subterranean economy --- Underground economy --- Artisans --- Economics --- Small business --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Europe --- New Silk Road Tags website: Interdisciplinary studies, cross-border, Silk Road. --- Shadow economy. --- connectivity. --- cross-border exchanges. --- informality.

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This book presents outstanding articles addressing various aspects related to the ancient Silk Road, in particular the cultural, political, and economic interactions that took place among the civilizations and cultures on the Eurasian continent. In addition, the articles help to reveal the hallmark features of cultural communication in Inner Asia in different historical periods. The book develops a new approach to studying the civilizations of the Silk Road, promotes interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional research, sets a new direction for Chinese ancient classics and western sinology, and presents the latest discoveries, including both archaeological finds and historical documents.

Civilization—History. --- Ethnology—Asia. --- Archaeology. --- Intercultural communication. --- Cultural History. --- Asian Culture. --- Intercultural Communication. --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Anthropological aspects --- Silk Road --- History.