EGF Affiliated Expert Yeghia TASHJIAN has recently published a chapter on “The International North-South Transport Corridor and the Belt and Road Initiative in the South Caucasus”

Published on EGF: 23.09.2025

by EGF Editor

EGF Affiliated Expert Yeghia TASHJIAN has recently published a chapter on “The International North-South Transport Corridor and the Belt and Road Initiative in the South Caucasus” of the “Routledge Handbook of China's Belt and Road Initiative in Eurasia”. He examined how multipolarity triggered by building connectivity ‘corridors’ has impacted the behaviour of the local actors in the South Caucasus as they jockeyed for positions in the regional system. Taking into consideration the Russo-Ukrainian and Nagorno-Karabakh wars and the geopolitical and geo-economic shifts, the chapter focused on the impact of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on the South Caucasus and wider Eurasian connectivity in an evolving multipolar world order. READ MORE (under paywall)