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Publications Russia’s Middle East Policy

  • January 8, 2010
Publications Gas Forum 2010  PDF  (562 Kb)

Power industry, and especially sources of energy, are a key element ensuring economic development. As far as this sphere is concerned, Europe’s future will depend greatly on gas, and its crucial part will be the Central Europe.

  • January 8, 2010
News Lithuania shuts nuclear generator

Lithuania prepares to shut down its only nuclear power station by midnight on 31 December - a condition of its EU membership.

  • December 31, 2009
Publications Turkey and Russia: stronger partners in regional energy security, business

How can an eight-hour prime ministerial visit possibly transform the basic tenets of the relationship between Turkey and Russia?

This is what happened during the short visit to Ankara on Aug. 6, 2009, by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

  • December 30, 2009
Publications Stop the old “bridge” metaphor; Turkey has become a new regional “hub”

Prime Minister Erdogan’s upcoming visit to Washington, his host at the White House is likely to offer diplomatic niceties on Turkey’s role as a “bridge” between East and West.

Our argument is that this metaphor, however flattering it may have been in the past, no longer fits the reality of contemporary Turkey.

  • December 30, 2009
Publications TURKMENISTAN: GAS UNDER PRESSURE  PDF  (201 Kb)

In October 2008, an audit by the British company Gaffney, Cline and Associates - GCA propelled Turkmenistan to the rank of the world’s second largest gas producer. This revelation confirmed the assertions of Saparmurad Niazov, the grotesque Turkmenbashy – Father of all the Turkmens – who, from 1985 until his death in December 2006, reigned over his country without sharing power. Less than a year later, two publications which appeared this past September, sow confusion among international energy experts and raise many questions. These two papers, one – an article written by Arkady Dubnov for the Russian newspaper Vremya Novosteï and the other – a report by the German NGO, the Eurasian Transition Group (ETG), - cast doubt on the estimations made public in October 2008.

Arkady Dubnov relies on information gleaned from Russian officials, while it is a Turkmen source behind the ETG pieced. In summation, they lead us to understand that the Turkmen authorities misled the managers of GCA by providing them with manipulated and falsified data. Disinformation or truth? At present, it is difficult to say. Nonetheless, one cannot really avoid wondering about a certain number of questions surrounding this polemic over resources, real or supposed, of Turkmenistan. This constitutes a new episode in the struggle in which the great powers are engaging for control and exploitation of the formidable energy resources of Central Asia.

  • December 21, 2009
Publications North Caucasus Security Outlook

Russia during the Putin (and now Putin-Medvedev) years has, to a good degree, been successful in casting an image of increasing national wealth, external power and domestic stability...

  • December 18, 2009
Publications Russian Relations to the Gulf Region in a Changing Geopolitical Environment  PDF  (375 Kb)

Scholars of most academic disciplines across the social sciences have a fondness for comparing different regions in order to evaluate :

  • why one may be developing more rapidly than another,

  • why democracy may be stalled in one region or flourishing in another,

  • why the benefits foreseen by economic reform have proven less conclusive in some regions when compared to others...

  • December 15, 2009
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