Role of the New Silk Road in the development of integration processes in the Eurasian Space
This article considers the implementation of the ideas of Euro-Asian transport corridor through the implementation of the New Silk Road project. The article identifies the main states interested in the process, such as the US, China, EU, Russian Federation, India and other actors. The contradictory terms of the development of the concept of the infrastructure project are largely associated with the peculiarities of modern international relations in Eurasia. It is shown that the situation was largely reactive, based on experience of states participating in opposing blocks. Conventionally, it is possible to designate the first stage of project development, a phase that had lasted until the end of the first decade of the 2000s years. The main targets of the stakeholders in this period were market access to Central Asian energy resources. The next stage in the development of the New Silk Road project was largely associated with changes in the global energy markets. The author of this article consider regional developments that influenced the situation: the factor of formation of the Eurasian Economic Union, the formation of the SCO Energy club, as well as the transition to integrated cooperation of Russia and China in the matter of the formation of major transregional infrastructure project. In addition, the authors pay attention to the key features of the project in terms of investment in transport infrastructure of Russia and China. The authors come to the conclusions about the possibility of positive combining efforts to form the project of a New Silk Road for the development of integration processes within the SCO and the EAEU.