Geocultural Power: China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century

Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching across more than sixty countries and incorporating almost two—thirds of the world’s population. But what does it mean to revive the Silk Roads for the twenty—first century?

Geocultural Power explores...