Iran and the Caucasus
The war of nerves with Iran - consequences for the South Caucasus and Russia. OSW Commentary No. 75, 2012-04-25
... from Iran as a supplier of energy resources to Europe (while boosting oil prices), and would not undermine Moscow’s bilateral relations with Tehran, thus allowing it to play the Iranian crisis to its benefit in ...
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Tethys Subduction History in Caucasus Region
... lesser Caucasus as an ocean region with a slow expansion in early middle Ju- ...Lesser Caucasus oceanic crust in this Time ...Trans Caucasus and inside the Ophiolite Sevan-Akra com- plex in Pontaides ...
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Geopolitical Changes and Crises in The Caucasus
... The question is whether Russia has changed its policy on the unchangeability of borders. It seems that it has because Russian Foreign Minister Ser- gey Lavrov said on August 17, 2008 that Georgia's territorial integrity ...
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A Stability Pact for The Caucasus: A Consultative Document of the CEPS Task Force on the Caucasus. CEPS Paperback. January 2000
... and Iran against construction of any offshore gas lines on ecological grounds, point to inevitable ...to Iran, as an alternative land route to Turkey. Iran has concluded a separate SPA with Turkey ...
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The Struggle for a Civilised Wider European Order: Elements for European Security Strategy. CEPS Working Document No. 307, October 2008
... Workings of a South Caucasus Stability Pact Political and institutional Establishment of a South Caucasus Community, with a governing Council + Associates Iran, EU, Russia, Turkey, US A [r] ...
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Homo Jihadicus Islam in the former USSR and the phenomenon of the post Soviet militants in Syria and Iraq OSW REPORT 2015 09 21
... (including Iran), the Middle Eastern regimes (the Sauds in Saudi Arabia, the Hashemites in Jordan ...the Caucasus Emirate or IJU and Islamic State will deepen, rather than these organisations will be ...
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The South Caucasus Between integration and fragmentation
... alliance with Moscow with a close relationship with the EU in the form of an Association Agreement and participation in the DCFTA process, this was hailed as a realistic and imaginative policy, both in Western countries, ...
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External Political Actors and Influences in the South Caucasus
... protecting Armenian borders with Turkey and Iran. Russia also fully controls Armenian energy sector, including the only nuclear power station in Metsamor, and the gas pipeline linking Armenia with Iran, ...
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Openness Inflation Nexus in South Caucasus Economies
... After controlling for country and time-fixed effects, Alfaro found that in the short-run, openness does not cause to reducing inflation (Alfaro 2005). Samimi et al. (2011, 2012) found existence of negative and ...
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Investigation of the temporal fluctuations of the 1960–2010 seismicity of Caucasus
... for Caucasus and the adjacent territories of Northern Turkey and North- ern Iran available at the Institute of Geophysics and Seis- mic Monitoring Center, Tbilisi, ...
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Epidemiology of Taenia saginata taeniosis/cysticercosis: a systematic review of the distribution in central and western Asia and the Caucasus
... The clinical effects of T. saginata on humans are rela- tively trivial; usually at most limited to mild gastrointes- tinal signs and anal pruritus. With almost no fatalities and a very low disability weight, the global ...
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Contemporary suspended sediment yield of Caucasus mountains
... Overall, mean SSY values are higher in the northern part of the Caucasus (504 t km −2 yr −1 ) are higher than for the southern part (396 t km −2 yr −1 ). The difference is significant and not related to ...
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A framework for analyzing sex-selective abortion: the example of changing sex ratios in Southern Caucasus
... In agrarian societies, having a son is important because social reproduction is based on inheriting the family farm and pursuing the farming activity. This sometimes leads to primogeniture (only the first male inherits ...
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The European Union's relations with the South Caucasus, under the Partnership and Cooperation Agreements. COM (99) 272 final, 7 June 1999
... The Caucasus became eligible for support under the Rehabilitation regulation7, and the Council and the European Parliament approved exceptional financial assistance for Georgia and Armen[r] ...
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The Consociational Theory And Challenges To Democratization In South Caucasus Plural Societies
... South Caucasus plural states by the precondition of political culture modernization, which initially rejects the dominance of one ethnic group over other ones as the equality is one of the mandatory principles of ...
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5912.pdf
... Circassian groups universally demanded its cancellation and recognition of the Circassian genocide in the 19 th century. The advent of a new Circassian nationalism has fueled inter- ethnic tensions within the North ...
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The Construction of Unique Baku-Batum Pipeline in the Trans-Caucasus
... South Caucasus (there are many of them in America, they deliver crude oil from Pennsylvania to the cost of ocean, where oil is turned into kerosene and other products), the Baku oil will give an opportunity to ...
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Heirs to the Frontier: James Fenimore Cooper’s Influence on Tolstoy, Christian Gum
... Half-way across the world and sixty years after Cooper’s birth, another author considered how the frontier-making process affected the local environment and the nature of life on the edge of society. After enlisting in ...
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Risk assessment in the North Caucasus ski resorts
... The central Caucasus region includes the Mamison area (Fig. 4). The ridges of this area are the main barrier for moist western air masses; heavy precipitation is typical for this highland area. The altitudes ...
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Speleological Investigation of the Largest Limestone Massif in Georgia (Caucasus)
... [10] Asanidze, L., Avkopashvili, G., Tsikarishvili, K., Lezhava, Z., Chikhradze, N., Av- kopashvili, M., Samkharadze, Z. and Chartolani, G. (2017) Geoecological Monitor- ing of Karst Water in Georgia, Caucasus ...
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