News / Brèves Back to previous selection / Retour à la sélection précédente Extending the New Silk Road to West Asia and Africa-Second Edition 18 mai 2026 Facebook—A Vision of an Economic Renaissance, co-authored by Hussein Askary and Jason Ross, is a wide-ranging and ambitious study of global politics and economics that seeks to rethink the path of development in the Global South. Extending the New Silk Road to West Asia and Africa : Originally published in 2017 as a special report by the Schiller Institute and comprehensively revised in its 2025–2026 edition, the report argues that lasting peace and stability in West Asia and Africa cannot be achieved through diplomacy or aid alone. True progress, the authors contend, must rest on a material-economic transformation driven by infrastructure, science, and industrialization. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, is presented as the most inclusive framework for realizing such a grand transformation. At the same time, the authors urge Europe and the United States to abandon zero-sum geopolitical thinking and to participate as equal partners in building this new “win-win” paradigm. Read the full preface by Professor Li Xing : https://brixsweden.org/a-blueprint-for-peace-through.../ The report is available in English in paperback  (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1882985044 ) and  E-book kindle format (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYJ3KW3F ), and  also in paperback in Chinese (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1882985052/ ). contact@schillerinstitute.ca (263) 381-7606 cell. office