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A FAREWELL TO SOUTH STREAM: A WIN-WIN SITUATION FOR RUSSIA AND TURKEY OR A ZERO-SUM GAME FOR RUSSIA AND EU?
Prior to evaluate how the cancellation of South Stream Natural Gas Pipeline Project will affect the European energy security, the process of South Stream Project should be put forward in order to better understand
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NEW PHASE OF GEOPOLITICAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN WEST AND RUSSIA
For the past 400 years Russia has exercised control of the area of the modern day Ukraine. Recent problems between Russia and Ukraine are not an outcome of animosity among the two nations, but
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“SOUTHERN CORRIDOR”: CRUCIAL STEP TOWARDS GLOBAL ENERGY SECURITY
Groundbreaking ceremony of the ”Southern Gas Corridor” was held in Baku on September the 20th. It was also the 20th anniversary of the ”Contract of the Century”. The event organized in the capital of
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HISTORIC EVENT: GROUNDBREAKING OF SECOND LARGE PROJECT OF GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE
For the second time in the last twenty years Azerbaijan has realized the second international project in the field of energy. Groundbreaking ceremony of the Southern Gas Corridor was held. President of Azerbaijan Ilham
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION-TURKEY ENERGY RELATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: ONE SIDED DEPENDENCE OR BALANCED INTERDEPENDENCE?
In 2011, Turkey’s second largest trading partner was the Russian Federation ($30 billion; $6 billion exports, $24 billion imports and the fundamental good in mutual trade was energy – 70 percent of imports; $21
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EU-TURKEY RELATIONS IN 2014: GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START?
The most optimistic scenarios foresaw that Turkey could become an EU member around the year 2014 if Turkey’s domestic reforms were ambitious enough and the EU would have had a clear political will to
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AZERBAIJAN, TURKMENISTAN AND KAZAKHSTAN: THE THREE PROMISING HYDROCARBON STATES OF THE CASPIAN REGION
Azerbaijan: A Brief Information of the Country’s Energy Policy As a landlocked energy exporter, Azerbaijan’s oil export infrastructure crosses neighboring states before accessing world markets.[1] Baku’s preference of an east-west route through Georgia and
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TURKEY-BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION (BSEC) RELATIONS
Introduction The end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s was a period of major changes that dramatically upset strategic balances, brought an end to an era of bipolarity and as a
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TURKISH AND BULGARIAN ACCESSION TO EUROPEAN UNION IN COMPARISON
Introduction In this paper, I will examine Turkey’s on-going accession process and Bulgarian accession process to EU, which was finalized with full Bulgarian membership to EU in 1 January 2007. In order to make
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