CRITICAL MINERAL SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY AND MULTI-LAYERED REGIONAL GOVERNANCE: INSIGHTS FROM CENTRAL ASIA.
The convergence of green and digital 'Twin Transformation', coupled with power competition and geopolitical tensions, highlighting the growing strategic significance of critical mineral supply chains. Central Asia, endowed with substantial critical mineral reserves and situated at the crossroads of...
| Published in: | TRAMES: A Journal of the Humanities & Social Sciences Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 271 - 295 |
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Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus
2025
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