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Optimisation of Central Asian and Eurasian Trans-Continental Land Transport Corridors
18/12/2009 By Michael Emerson, Evgeny Vinokurov
There is at present an overlapping but inadequately coordinated combination of strategic inter-continental transport corridors stretching across the Eurasian landmass, centred on or around Central Asia.
This paper reviews several strategic transport maps, and makes proposals for their coordination and rationalisation. So far the EU Central Asia strategy has not paid much attention to these questions. However the EU's own initiatives are in need of updating and revision to take into account major investments being made by other parties.
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Asia Central Asia and Russia Europe Kazakhstan RussiaBio author: Michael Emerson
Michael Emerson is Associate Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) since 1998, and program director for Wider Europe; he participated in successive projects on the Balkans, Caucasus, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Cyprus, Middle East, conflict resolution, democracy promotion, Europe's strategic security, political Islam and the crisis of multi-culturalism within the EU.
Bio author: Evgeny Vinokurov
Evgeny Vinokurov is Head of the Economic Analysis Unit in the Strategy and Research department of the Eurasian Development Bank in Almaty.
