Multipolarity Multipolarity Dialogues: Carlos Roa On How The New Golden Road Is Shifting Power South
Sep 18, 2025
In this engaging discussion, Carlos Roa, Director of Research at the Danube Institute and former executive editor of The National Interest, delves into the transformative India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor, also known as the New Golden Road. He highlights its significance in the global landscape, especially in contrast to the Silk Road and other routes. The conversation explores how small states maneuver through geopolitical tensions, the strategic importance of infrastructure, and the evolving U.S. policy towards China and Taiwan, making complex geopolitics accessible and fascinating.
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Israel's Export Push After Second Intifada
- Israel shifted from investment-led to export-led growth after the Second Intifada, prompting infrastructure diplomacy.
- That economic pivot helped motivate Israel's outreach and laid groundwork for the Abraham Accords and regional corridor plans.
Duplicable Blockism Fuels Corridor Race
- Multipolarity drives 'duplicable blockism': states rebuild resilient, regional supply chains and nearshoring to avoid geopolitical risk.
- This shift creates a buyers' market for transit states to sell corridor and port investments to competing powers.
Three Competing Eurasian Corridors
- Multiple overland routes (northern, southern, middle corridors) compete to link Asia and Europe, each with political constraints.
- The Middle Corridor through the Caspian and Caucasus currently attracts attention as a politically neutral and investible route.
