The next great power contest is not over territory — it’s over data corridors, energy infrastructure, and AI architecture. Central Asia sits at the centre of it, and most analysts haven’t caught up yet.
Our new report – AI Geopolitics and Central Asia: Infrastructure, Sovereignty, and the New Digital Silk Road – gives you the strategic framework to understand what is actually at stake: who is building what, who is winning, and what the region can realistically do about it. If Eurasia matters to your work, this is the analysis you need.
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Here is the list of contents of this report:
· AI GEOPOLITICS AND CENTRAL ASIA
· Executive Summary
· Introduction: When Technology Becomes Geopolitics
· Part I — The Global Competition for AI Infrastructure
· Beyond Software: The Physical Foundations of AI Power
· The Fracturing Digital Order
· Semiconductors, Critical Minerals, and the New Resource Competition
· Part II — Central Asia in the Emerging Digital Geography
· A New Layer of Strategic Relevance
· Energy as Digital Infrastructure
· Fiber Corridors and the Data Geography of Eurasia
· Part III — Digital Sovereignty and Its Discontents
· What Digital Sovereignty Actually Means
· The Anatomy of Digital Dependency
· Cybersecurity as Strategic Exposure
· Part IV — The Powers Competing for Central Asia’s Digital Future
· China: Infrastructure Scale and Strategic Depth
· The United States: Dominance, Distance, and Growing Attention
· The European Union: Regulatory Power and Connectivity Ambitions
· Russia: Structural Presence, Diminishing Leverage
· Part V — Scenarios for Central Asia’s Digital Future
· Scenario One: The Eurasian Digital Bridge
· Scenario Two: Fragmented Dependency
· Scenario Three: Multi-Vector Digitality
· Scenario Four: Peripheral Digitalization
· Part VI — Strategic Priorities for the Region
· Build Regional Digital Architecture
· Diversify Technological Partnerships Strategically
· Invest in Human Capital as Strategic Infrastructure
· Develop Cybersecurity as a Regional Capability
· Conclusion: At the Intersection of Two Geographies