Regional integration via major powers: russian eurasian economic union versus chinese silk road economic belt versus american new silk road project
Journal: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi uluslararası sosyal bilimler dergisi
Year: 2019

Great and regional&#x0D; powers have been trying to influence/control Central Asia’s (CA)&#x0D; political-economic fabric and development for the sake of their own strategic&#x0D; interests via different politico-economic schemes. Especially, Russia, China&#x0D; and the US are competing to inject their individual regional integration models&#x0D; for reducing the influence of other great and regional powers. These models fall&#x0D; in the category of extra-regional integration projects, which pr