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.
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.
TURKMENISTAN: GAS UNDER PRESSURE
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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.
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...
Russian Relations to the Gulf Region in a Changing Geopolitical Environment
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Scholars of most academic disciplines across the social sciences have a fondness for comparing different regions in order to evaluate :
Eastern Caspian Sea Energy Geopolitics: A Litmus Test for the U.S. – Russia – China Struggle for the Geostrategic Control of Eurasia
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European energy and transport - Trends to 2030: update 2007
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The Baseline scenario finalised in November 2007 gives an update of the previous trend scenarios, such as the “Trends to 2030” published in 2003 and its 2005 update. The new Baseline scenario takes into account the high energy import price environment of recent years, sustained economic growth and new policies and measures implemented in the Member-States.
5th Forum Europe Ukraine
(386 Kb) "Dr Marat Terterov, EGF Director, will exchange views on Black Sea Geopolitics with Russian State Duma Deputies and other Experts at the Annual Forum Europe-Ukraine, in Kiev on”:
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Political Prognosis
The former-Yugoslav entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina is gripped by deep political crisis at present. Divisions between Serb, Croat and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslims) minorities are deepening inside the country, undermining the work and institutions of government, scuttling any sense of national unity and threatening to plunge Bosnia into the vortex of ethnic conflict...
Conventional Security Risks to Central Asia. A Summary Overview.
(199 Kb) This paper briefly outlines the conventional threats to the security of the five former Soviet states of Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It also attempts to identify the common features contributing to insecurity in the region. The new and quite disturbing threat to regional insecurity – the growing risk of a spillover of insurgency into the region from Afghanistan is also discussed.
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