The economic partnership of Russia and Turkey is rapidly gaining momentum. However, there are still obstacles along the way. One of the long-term goals of Moscow and Ankara is a significant increase in trade turnover and foreign direct investments in each other's economy. The parties...

We should add one more important dimension to the character of Chinese expansion in Central Asia. It began with and still continues the export of labour-intensive products, which often hinders the development of the region’s manufacturing industry and its integrated... 

I, once again, found myself in Cairo during the second half of September. The trip was not long and I would never commit it to writing if it wasn’t for one particular circumstance. The fact is, Egypt is like a second home to me. At the end of the last century, I spent a long 15 years living...

The Bishkek SCO (The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit has fully confirmed the viability of unions which tend to strengthen regionalism in the world today. This strengthening is particularly linked with the fact that, in this new century, the centre-periphery...

Long before the US intervention in Iraq it was clear that  the major point of American interest towards this country were its natural resources since Washington has always been striving to gain control over the better part of oil and gas rich countries in the region. According to OPEC the...

The Japanese economy is stagnating the last two decades yet. Its main problems are a declining real sector of the economy, combined with relocation of production capacities to China, high wages, a large number of long-living pensioners, together with a low birth rate, a huge (mostly domestic...

In the twenty first century Africa rich with energy resources has become the center of geo-political competition of the major powers. For this reason that the relevance of Africa in the strategic planning of most countries has notably increased lately. Where the US and EU have long been...

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...