Eurasia in the Making - Revival of the Silk Road : A Study on Cross-border Trade and Markets in Contemporary Uzbekistan

ISBN-13: 9783899421422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 230 str.

Markus Kaiser

Opis

The trade routes connecting Europe and East Asia have fascinated scholars, traders, and adventurers throughout the centuries. Although its modern incarnation may lack the romantic aura of the fabled "Silk Road," the recent and rapid growth of private trade and commodity exchange has contributed significantly to a revival of the Silk-Road trade.
This takes the form of long-distance petty trade across the newly established borders of states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union as well as into other neighboring countries--including Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China, India, Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. Like the old "Silk Road," the modern version is an agglomeration of different routes with different starting points, running through Central Asia and connecting Asia and Europe; it manifests evidence of the continuity in trading patterns on the Eurasian continent.
Markus Kaiser is senior lecturer in development studies and research fellow of the Institute of Global Society Studies at the University of Bielefeld He serves as director of the Center for German and European Studies at the St. Petersburg State University.

O autorze

Kaiser, MarkusMarkus Kaiser (Dr. rer. soc.) holds the position of president of the Kazakh-German University (DKU) in Almaty, Kazakhstan. In 2015 he served as scientific coordinator of the BMBF-financed competence network Crossroads Asia and as senior researcher at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn. Previous positions include visiting professorships in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Eurasian National University (ENU), Astana, and the Faculty of Sociology of the St. Petersburg State University (SPbGU) as well as the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Bishkek. He was research fellow and senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, University of Trier and senior lecturer in Development Studies in the Faculty of Sociology and research fellow in the Institute of Global Society Studies, both at the Bielefeld University. From 2001 until 2004, he served as director of the DAAD-funded Centre for German and European Studies at the St. Petersburg State University.