Competing Visions
How Infrastructure is Reshaping the Eurasian Supercontinent
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The Case for a Trans-Caspian Bridge
Major infrastructure projects… can still fail economically in terms of opportunity costs either because of excessive costs or insufficient demand but their political importance can be very significant, even momentous.
World’s Roads “One of the Greatest Security Risks”
Lord George Robertson, former Secretary General of NATO and Chairman of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) Foundation discusses “one of the gravest and most preventable security risks that faces people – the risk of death and disability on the world’s roads,” in a special message for the launch of CSIS’s new Reconnecting Asia report, “Safety on the New Silk Road.”
Infrastructure Boom Offers Fresh Start on Asian Road Safety
It might be the world’s deadliest, least known conflict. The latest available figures from the World Health Organization show that road accidents claimed at least 1.25 million lives in 2013, more than twice the death toll from the war in Syria. Nor is the carnage confined to far-off lands. It is happening in countries from America to Australia, and increasingly, in developing Asia.
Safety on the New Silk Road
For developing economies like Kazakhstan, Asia’s infrastructure push offers opportunities to improve road safety.