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Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), based on regional and multicultural cooperation, has focused on the …. Since February 1992 ECO has been expanded to ten as the result of collapse of the Soviet Union. Of course, gas and oil are … very important factors in this regard. ECO has followed its two major plans in the context of “Action Plan” and "Istanbul …
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Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central … Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our … analysis based on the different strategies of Russia (dominance) and China (doing-business) towards the region and present the …
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consolidation of China`s position and prestige in Central Asia and worldwide. This includes the recent launch of a strategic project …
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This article assesses the extent to which post-Soviet Central Asia is emerging as an interactive regional subsystem focused more on problems and actors within the region than on those outside the region. The answer to this question has important implications for policy, because in the presence...
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The role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the nuclear crisis of Iran has proven to be rather … agent in its attempts to resolve the Iran crisis. However, legal grounds have not always been met by Iran. The aim of this … paper is to analyze the relationship between IAEA and Iran, and how it has evolved throughout the nuclear crisis in Iran. …
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The War on Iraq in has split the continent into "Old Europe" and "New Europe". On Iran, by contrast, the Eu jointly … the European "Dialogues" with Iran as a regime that reduced information deficits in the case of Iran. In the case of Iraq …
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Since the EUÕs Helsinki decision in 1999 to officially admit Turkey as a candidate country, TurkeyÕs territorial … mechanisms which act upon the development of regional governance in Turkey during the EU pre-accession process. Based on …
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reforms, maintaining 8% growth and passed legislation to change Turkey into a more democratic country in line with the …
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The Eastern Partnership, encompassing EU’s relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, was launched in May 2009 as an “eastern dimension” of the European Neighbourhood Policy. Its aims at supporting the reform process in the six former Soviet...
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On September 3rd, 2013, the President of the RA Serzh Sargsyan abruptly shifted the direction of Armena’s long-praised integration preference with the EU and announced “Armenia
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