What the Silk Road history teaches about the modern Red Sea crisis

... silkroad-samarkand.com However, the relative advantage of the ships over camels in the XVI century was not the only decisive factor of the transformation in global trade. It was the matter of security along with the unstable and more complicated conditions on the Silk Road that contributed to the decline of Asian-centered trade. From the point of geopolitical theory, it is natural that a superpower struggles to protect its key trade roads to support its economic stability. In retrospect, since the beginning of the Silk Road trade, the central parts of the ...