The power sector in Lebanon is dominated by the national electric utility, Electricite du Liban (EdL), which is organized under the Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW). EdL's assets, human resources, and administrative facilities were severely damaged during the period of civil war in Lebanon,...

Large energy reserves have recently been discovered in the Levant Basin, where considerable amounts of gas reserves have been found in the exclusive economic zones (EEZ) of Lebanon, Cyprus and Israel. Lebanon and Israel are both net energy importers and suffer from energy security problems....

China’s oil sector has been dominated by three large state-owned oil companies in charge of developing the country’s domestic reserves, building and operating pipelines, managing China’s increasingly sophisticated downstream, and filling its strategic petroleum reserves (SPR). Over the...

Der Beitritt Russlands zur WTO war ein Höhepunkt der ansonsten eher tristen achten WTO-Ministerkonferenz im Dezember 2011. Wirtschaftspolitisch kann der WTO-Beitritt Russlands als 'Krönung' einer nationalen Strategie gesehen werden, die einem Entwicklungsmodell folgt, das für den...