Introduction -- Energy security : the current approaches of scholarship -- U.S.-Russia energy ties -- U.S.-Azerbaijan energy diplomacy : BTC and beyond -- Russia-Germany energy cooperation -- The Ukraine conflict : a game-changer? -- Conclusions and policy recommendations : away from resource...

Toward a theory of integration -- Evaluating integration amongst Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey -- Transnational extra-regional actors : The World Bank Group -- Transnational extra-regional actors : TRACECA and INOGATE -- The China-Central Asia pipeline : a counterfactual on the role of TERAs

This study was commissioned by the EIB with funding from the Eastern Partnership Technical Assistance Trust Fund, EPTATF. The study assesses the financing needs of the SMEs in the Eastern Partnership countries and the market failures that are constraining the development of the SME sector. In...

This paper takes an efficiency analysis perspective to analyze, on the basis of the data of the 2009 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey, the determinants of scholastic performance in five Asian countries (Azerbaijan,...

This paper takes an efficiency analysis perspective to analyze, on the basis of the data of the 2009 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey, the determinants of scholastic performance in five Asian countries (Azerbaijan,...