Sureyya YIGIT Turbulence is a frequent theme encountered in both international politics and in international economics. Politically this can mean unstable governments, economically, spiraling inflation or unsteady exchange rates. With the ending of the cold war and the onset of globalisation … [Read more...]
Regiunea Mării Negre şi Asia Centrală. Interacţiuni geopolitice
The fall of the socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the USSR, in the last decade of the twentieth century, reactivated the Black Sea Region and Central Asia on the world scene. The two regions attracted the attention of the international community as potential zones of … [Read more...]
Gazul – instrument de politică externă al Rusiei
Dan Marcel BĂRBUȚ Harta distribuţiei globale a resurselor de gaz natural, realizată de BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2008, indică platforma continentală a Eurasiei ca fiind cea de-a doua regiune din lume bogată în gaz natural, cu o cantitate de 59,41 trilioane de metri cubi. Acelaşi raport … [Read more...]
Energy Resources at the Eastern Mediterranean Basin: a Solution for the EU’s Debt Crisis or a Point of Friction?
Dimitrios DALAKLIS The so-called “classical geopolitical theories” are still valid as explanatory tools of the Mediterranean's eastern basin role in the wider context of international relations; they can also provide the necessary framework for examining the turbulent events which take place in the … [Read more...]
European Commissions Plans Regarding CSR
Ştefania Doina VRABIE The need for corporate social responsibility (CSR) is to enhance positive impacts over the society and the environment - for example through the innovation of new products and services that are beneficial to society and enterprises themselves - and to minimise and prevent … [Read more...]
New Hopes for EURAFTA – a European Union – American Trade Agreement –
Robert Radu HERVIAN Any study or analysis that has to do with the US-European relations and furthermore any perspective seen thru a western Atlantic window, would have to contemplate first, the American internal politics and surprisingly perhaps, not the geo strategic interests of the United … [Read more...]
Tax Incentives for Innovative Development – German Experience
Oksana BOGITSKAJA The future of trade relations between Belarus and Germany is the development of industrial, scientific and technical cooperation in high-tech industries, where both countries have the capacity. In this connection it is necessary to develop a set of measures aimed at increasing the … [Read more...]
Criza euro: începutul sau sfârşitul hegemoniei Germaniei în Europa?
Germany has emerged from the multiple crises of the eurozone as the continent’s pivotal power. U.S. President Barack Obama understood this early in his tenure and it has also been openly acknowledged by the likes of Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who called for more German leadership in … [Read more...]
The Future of Europe
Contrary to popular belief that increased lending, first in the financial and corporate sector and then on a country level, is the key source of Europe’s problems, it turns out that this may be just the tip of the iceberg in a series of many structural problems, namely: reduced global influence, low … [Read more...]
Transatlantic Petroleum Provides Update on Horizontal Producing Well in Turkey
http://www.ogfj.com/articles/2012/10/transatlantic-petroleum-provides-update-on-horizontal-producing-well-in-turkey.html?cmpid=EnlOGFJNovember82012.html TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:TNP) (NYSE:TAT) has provided initial production results of the Goksu-3H, the company's first horizontal … [Read more...]