It was over a quarter century ago that Deng Xiaoping first proclaimed energy to be "the priority issue in the economy." It still is - and more so now that energy is the driving force in China's foreign, defense and economic policies. It affects China's relations with the Middle East, Africa and...

While international scholarship has generally been laudatory of Bulgaria's land restitution efforts, painting them as part of an overall success story, a real analysis of this de-communization program has been sorely lacking. This author has found that in many ways the approbation Bulgaria has...

This paper assesses the motivations and intentions of the six members of the SCO (Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) in preparing the groundwork for closer economic and trade relations in former Soviet Central Asia

While international scholarship has generally been laudatory of Bulgaria's land restitution efforts, painting them as part of an overall success story and yet another example of the country's sharp break with communism, a real analysis of Bulgaria's so-called 'success story', particularly by the...