Introduction
The transformations that have taken place in the international system in recent years have led to infrastructure projects being viewed not merely as instruments of economic development but as significant components of geopolitical power competition as well. The expansion of global production networks, the intensification of trade flows, and the growing salience of energy security debates have placed transportation and logistics infrastructure at the center of international politics. Within this framework, transportation corridors, ports, railway lines, and logistics hubs have come to function not only as economic investments but also as strategic tools that shape states’ positions within the global system.
The concept of connectivity, which has emerged as the conceptual framework for this transformation, demonstrates that relations between states are shaped not only through their political and military dimensions but also through economic linkages established across infrastructure networks. In the contemporary world, actors that control trade routes, energy pipelines, and logistics flows are able to secure a stronger position in the global system. For this reason, infrastructure projects now figure among the fundamental components not only of development planning but of foreign policy and security strategy as well.
