As an economist at the University of Applied Sciences in Goettingen, Manuel Stark studies development models. Stark, who has spent time in South Korea and Mexico, compares developing countries in terms of politics, culture, and administration, to see what factors contribute to their economic success.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has continued to refer to its neighboring countries – the former Soviet republics and, at times, other Eastern European countries formerly under Soviet influences – as the “near abroad.” The term, a literal translation of the Russian blizhnee zarubezh’ye, implies a special relationship with Russia, though the kind of special has varied by speci
In 1993, Chevron Corporation established a joint venture with the Kazakh government, signing on to a $40 billion commitment over the next 40 years to develop oil extraction in Kazakhstan.
Samuel Lussac is a PhD candidate in political science at the Institute of Political Science (Sciences-Po) in Bordeaux, France. He has published numerous papers on the political economy of Azerbaijan, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, and on other topics related to oil and gas production in the South Caucasus.
Anthony Pahigian, deputy director of the US State Department’s Office of European Security and Political Affairs, gave an informal lecture at the Open Society Institute in New York on February 24, 2010.
Vladimir Shkolnikov, a former top official at the Organization for the Security and Cooperation of Europe's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), took part in an informal panel at the Open Society Institute in New York on February 24, 2010.
