Revista OEconomica

Raluca-Georgiana ROBU, Maria GHEORGHE (NIŢU), Valentin COJANU, Alexia-Maria POPESCU - Between Opportunity and Dependency: The Evolution of Romania’s Trade with Asian Economies [Între oportunitate şi dependenţă: evoluţia comerţului României cu economiile asiatice]

Narciz BĂLĂŞOIU, Octavian-Dragomir JORA, Răzvan Marian PÎRCĂLĂBESCU - Romania’s Positioning and Room for Manoeuvre: The Dilemmas of Peripheral Adaptation in the New Indo-Pacific [Poziţionarea şi marjele de manevră ale României: dilemele adaptării periferice în noul Indo-Pacific]

Mădălina JURUBIțĂ - Redefining EU Trade Policy for an Age of Geoeconomic Rivalry: Strategic Autonomy, Security, and Resilience

Geicun MUSTAFA - Islamophobia as an Informal Trade Barrier: Reputational Risk and the Political Economy of Deglobalization

Hesam JEBELI-BAKHT-ARA - Racialized Capitalism and Economic Discrimination: The Case of Ethnic Labour Segmentation in Contemporary Europe

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Revista ŒCONOMICA

In The Silk Roads and its sequel, The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan invites readers to reconsider global history and contemporary geopolitics from a deliberately shifted vantage point away from the familiar Atlantic axis. The Romanian editions published by Editura Trei make accessible a narrative project that seeks to re-center Eurasia as the primary engine of historical change, exchange, and power accumulation. Blending grand historical synthesis with present-day analysis, Frankopan advances a persuasive yet contestable argument about the continuity between ancient trade routes and modern networks of energy, finance, and influence. Together, the two volumes oscillate between scholarly ambition and narrative seduction, raising important questions about historical causality, geopolitical determinism, and the risks inherent in reframing global complexities through a single, organizing metaphor.

ŒCONOMICA no. 2/2025

Book Review: Peter Frankopan and the Unlikely Smoothness of the Silk Roads, Old and New

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