Affiliation:
1. University of Amsterdam, International Institute of Social History, https://uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel
Abstract
The concept of the Silk Road has recently been repackaged as a China-led
inter-state enterprise that will lead to ‘a win-win attempt for all’. This
technocratic utopia of superior infrastructure, smooth transport routes,
and boosted trade should be challenged, because it ignores the countless
flows and networks across Eurasia that states fail to control. The zone
connecting China to India across Myanmar and Bangladesh exemplifies
the obstacles that the broader scheme is generally likely to face: distrust,
implementation deficits, fragmented sovereignty, sensitive spaces, and
unregulated cross-border flows. In this chapter, it is argued that the plan,
far from offering benign progress for all, will damage many livelihoods
and lead to adverse political, environmental, and security outcomes.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
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