The Interregional Perspective

To understand the major markets of Afghanistan in their own right and in relation to one another and to external market stimuli, one must utilize an interregional perspective encompassing land and sea routes, specifically a combined Silk Road and Indian Ocean commercial network frame of reference. Awareness of long-distance trade and migration patterns and other transnational phenomena necessarily involves intellectual migrations through Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia regional studies literatures.

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To understand the major markets of Afghanistan in their own right and in relation to one another and to external market stimuli, one must utilize an interregional perspective encompassing land and sea routes, specifically a combined Silk Road and Indian Ocean commercial network frame of reference. Awareness of long-distance trade and migration patterns and other transnational phenomena necessarily involves intellectual migrations through Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia regional studies literatures