Abstract
This editorial explains the beginnings of the journal Silk Road commencing around the time of the 2019 Tashkent agreement and the journal’s future scope and ambitions. As nations within Central Asia look towards greater cooperation the editors articulate the journal’s focus on public policy issues and how Silk Road intends to offer a long-held need for scholarly perspectives and analysis from within the region itself. It explains how the journal’s name links to the past of the region, to evoke its ‘inclusive’ connotations as a space of exchange, travel and ‘ambiguity’ but also is ‘intended to evoke a dynamic forward look towards the future’. Embodying a broad and interdisciplinary focus in its scope, it is hoped that the journal’s name also paves the way to its long term mission of encouraging ‘creativity among researchers working’ on policy in the region and to ‘prompt them both to analyse current public policy and to imagine its future’.
Highlights
Introducing Silk Road: A Journal of Eurasian Development Silk Road was founded to act as a forum to debate the various public policy issues in the Eurasian region it seeks to serve
The journal provides a scholarly platform to provide an insideout perspective of the region that once brought ‘enlightenment’ to the world as shapers of science and culture (Starr 2020). Remarkable figures such as Abu Rayhan Beruni, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Alisher Nava’i, Al-Khwarizmi and Ulugh Beg achieved breakthoughs in fields ranging from mathematics to medicine
International scholars are certainly encouraged to contribute to the conversations about the region and its future direction that Silk Road intends to host, it is with a view to nurturing research within the region itself that the journal was established in Tashkent
Summary
Introducing Silk Road: A Journal of Eurasian Development Silk Road (silkroadjournal.online) was founded to act as a forum to debate the various public policy issues in the Eurasian region it seeks to serve. The aim of the journal is to further the conversation among all these groups on policy issues of significance regionally. Catterall et al: Silk Road: A Journal of Eurasian Development – Prospectus and Purpose for scholarly research into contemporary developments and challenges in the region, research that will cast light on the nature of these issues and how best to tackle them.
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