Eurasia's economic architecture emerging

Tokyo

AFRICA was once known as the Dark Continent when much of it was unknown and few people wanted to go there. The same could be said now of the Eurasian continent where the Central Asian republics divide Asia from Europe. But change is coming, some say, and with it could come a new industrial revolution.

One of the few visionaries to have perceived this fact is Kent Calder, a distinguished academic and diplomatic adviser whose book The New Continentalism, published by Yale University Press in 2012, chronicled what Francis Fukuyama called "the rise of a new geopolitical configuration" or Eurasian land mass that is becoming increasingly integrated by trade and economic developments.