Earlier this summer, a long-term energy strategy was announced in Iraq. The developers of this document forecast that, by the year 2030, the country will have managed to sell 6 trillion dollars’ worth of oil and gas in external markets, thus taking second position in the world suppliers ranking...

For a long time Libya did not enter into any new oil contracts with foreign investors, but it has not been without reason, as the country had to learn from previous forms of cooperation, and in the future it will be able to offer foreign companies a new model of cooperation, which will be... 

The Arab world is chronically falling behind the industrial leaders, and the hanging up in the stage of transition to more intensive forms of labour and types of production is going to continue in the foreseeable future. The idea of integration as a means to escape backwardness and encourage...

Libyan oil has always been at the center of not only national interests, but also the interests of international oil companies and the various states attempting to take advantage of the political struggle and even revolutionary mood of the country. Though after the revolution Libya has...

A certain share of those people shaping modern Arab thought speak openly about their doubts as to recognition of capitalism as an incontestable system for optimizing economic and interpersonal relations. Arab ideologists are in search of a special development option...

Arab oil importers are faced with a hard life. In the foreseeable future, their existence will be strictly determined by scarcity of capital, and their lagging behind in terms of livelihood will be increasing markedly. The indicative planning of the times of socialist...

The oil exporting part of the Arab world, though seemingly homogeneous, carries within itself noticeable differences of the economic, political and socio-cultural nature. The only circumstance ...

On August 4 2013 the newly elected Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has taken his oaths. A number of experts believe that this pragmatic cleric that has a strong Western background will bring a new spark to the Iranian relationships with the international community, especially on such pressing...

The main players among foreign concerns taking control of Iraqi mineral resources are Asian companies. Given their enormous human resources and the growing economies of these countries, there is nothing surprising in the fact that they...

Mass media persons are well aware of an interesting phenomenon: Any gibberish, presented in pseudo-scientific terms, evokes a sense of instinctive trust in the majority of the readers. In articles and books on the Chinese threat, the term "population pressure" is often used...

Recently, amid reports concerning the supposed significant expansion of Qatar's liquefied natural gas (LNG on world markets, a variety of predictions about the consequences of this expansion for the Russian company Gazprom have been made by international experts. However...

Is there a Chinese threat? This question can be answered as follows: Any militarily strong state is a potential threat to its neighbors, and what's more, if it has intercontinental missiles, not only to its neighbors. Foreign as well as certain Russian publications often provoke fear-mongering...