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NEW DEFENSE STRATEGY: GERMANY READYING FOR WAR?
Ukraine crisis became a catalyst for revisiting of foreign and defense policies pursued by the countries of the European Union. Germany has assumed the most active position and commenced developing a new security strategy
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GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES IN THE CASPIAN REGION IN THE CONTEXT OF SHAPING OF NEW WORLD ORDER
World political map, formed in the early XXI century, increasingly resembles an utterly motley mosaic, where world and regional powers are neighboring small states that are affected by global and inter-civilizational problems, in one
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MAMMADOV: AZERBAIJAN HAS ITS OWN POSITION ON COOPERATION WITH EU
”The Riga Summit aims at maintaining and reviewing the current state of cooperation of the European Union with Eastern Partnership countries, and Azerbaijan has its own position on cooperation with EU”, deputy head
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“TURKISH STREAM” PROJECT AND THE INTERESTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN STATES
Russia’s “South Stream” gas pipeline project replacement by “Turkish Stream” had an impact on energy policy of importers by a number of countries in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Bulgaria was left out of the
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RESURRECTION OF NABUCCO PIPELINE: REAL OR MYTH?
The energy history of East-West energy corridor has not started with Nabucco, but Nabucco was considered a crown-jewel of the Southern Gas Corridor. Nabucco Consortium was established with Ankara Agreement in 2009 by Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria,
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THE BREXIT VOTE: UNCERTAINTY OVER ALTERNATIVE?
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has set one the most memorable campaign moods in British history, as the May election draws near experts are predicting a major change in the country political and economic
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ARGUMENTS ON TTIP
What is TTIP and what does it aim to do? The bilateral trade agreement negotiated between the EU and US is called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or in short TTIP. Because it
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EU VS. RUSSIA: OUTSET OF NEW PHASE OF ENERGY CONFRONTATION
The European Union is in the search of a new centralization model. The final document adopted at the closing of the EU Summit held in Brussels on 18-19 March included the intention of establishing
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GAS POLICY OF GREECE UNDER NEW GOVERNMENT: RUSSIA, TURKISH STREAM AND DIVERSIFICATION
Russia and Turkish Stream After the collapse of the USSR, Russia’s new political elite of early 1990s emerged with its liberal orientation, Euro-Atlantic integration aspirations and opposition to supporting anti-western governments. Whereas, Russia after
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IS THERE A “PLAN B” FOR UKRAINE?
”Russia must immediately stop arming the separatists in the Eastern Ukraine and start thinking about a ceasefire”. These were the words of the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during his speech at the World Economic
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