What is BRIQ?
A scholarly, bilingual journal
BRIQ (Belt & Road Initiative Quarterly) is a scholarly journal of international politics, economy, and culture. The languages of publication are Turkish and English.
An alternative scholarly space
Published since 2019, BRIQ seeks to reduce reliance on Western-centred secondary frameworks and to develop a scholarly forum where Türkiye, China, and the developing world can share their own research agendas and intellectual traditions directly.
Direct exchange of knowledge
BRIQ assumes the task of providing direct exchange of views and information among Chinese and Turkish academics, intellectuals, and policy makers. In the meantime, this journal will serve as a platform to bring together the intellectual accumulation of the whole world, especially developing countries, on the basis of the Belt and Road Initiative, which presents a historic opportunity for the common future of humanity.
Why is it published?
Bridging the knowledge gap
Turkey has a significant role – real and potential – in accelerating South-South cooperation. Turkey is conveniently located as Asia’s farthest outpost to the West. It assumes a critical position as a pivotal country on BRI’s North-South and East-West axes. However, China’s development and BRI’s contribution to the future of humanity have remained to a large extent underrecognized and superficially evaluated in Turkish academia, media, and politics. This is mainly because Turkey’s academics, media professionals, and policy makers have been observing China using Western sources. In the same manner, China and BRI’s other potential partners have been viewing Turkey through a Western lens.
Understanding the Asian Century
Belt and Road Initiative Quarterly (BRIQ) has committed itself to developing an in-depth and accurate understanding of the present era, with a particular emphasis on the new opportunities and obstacles on the road to the New Asian Century.
Publishing approach
Public-driven economies
BRIQ is also devoted to publishing research and other intellectual contributions that underline the transformative power of public-driven economies, where popular interests are upheld as the basic principle, ahead of individual profit. The fundamental tasks of BRIQ are to demonstrate how BRI contributes to the implementation of this public-driven model, and to help potential BRI partners – including Turkey – to realize their real potential.
A fair world order
BRIQ stands for the unity of humanity and a fair world order. It will therefore be a publication for the world’s distinguished intellectuals, especially those from Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas: the defenders of a new civilization rising from Asia on the basis of peace, fraternity, cooperation, prosperity, and common development.
Institutional structure
Publisher
BRIQ is published by the China Research Institute of the China Business Development and Friendship Association. The owner is Emine Sağlam on behalf of the Turkish-Chinese Business Development and Friendship Association.
Independent publication decisions
The publisher ensures the journal’s institutional and administrative continuity; scientific bodies decide whether individual submissions are reviewed, accepted, revised, or rejected.
The journal charges no submission, review, or publication fee. Sponsors, donors, and external stakeholders cannot intervene in reviewer selection or publication decisions.