...Theodore C. Kariotis The issue of Cypriot oil seems to be gathering importance, and interested parties are trying to place themselves in positions of advantage. Large oil companies from the United States, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, and Russia seem to be interested in investing...

... of water from Turkey. This negotiation had been in the works, if not including the pipeline, for some time but was delayed due to differences over pricing and transportation. Most notably among the agree- ments signed was one for having Israeli companies bid on the privatization of Turkish companies...

...) and the Istanbul Chamber of Com- merce. Over the years, his position among the elite was buttressed through marriage: One daughter married into the Sabanci family and another into to the Boyner family. A third, Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag, served as president of 3. Koc was the partner company for Ford Motor...

...’ experiences enables us to map their microfoundations and probe the ways in which legis- lative entities, companies, civil society, and professional institutions interact and impact individual responses. At the conceptual level, such a resident-­ centered approach enables us to better identify practices...

...: Turkey’s Relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council  69 ties, especially the increase in construction on the part of Turkish companies and the growth of investment in Turkey’s real estate, banking, and telecom- munication industries by gulf country investors or by companies controlled by GCC...

... Industrial (the Agency for the Promotion of Industry, SPRI) within the Department of Industry, Trade, and Tourism. The aim of the new company was to provide backup and services to Basque industry. SPRI is the parent of a group of companies that provide a response to the require- ments of a business...

.... Bahgat: Egypt’s Energy Outlook  13 •  The outlook for natural gas is more promising. Over the past few decades Egypt, in partnership with international companies, has under- taken significant exploration and established itself as a major regional natural gas producer and exporter...

...,” Ethnicity, and Conflict in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria J. P. Afam Ifedi and J. Ndumbe Anyu The long-­standing conflict in the Niger Delta region grew out of disputes between the Niger Delta’s ethnic communities, oil companies operating in the region...

... 7746 on the Research, Devel- opment, Production, Handling, Transportation, Storage and Sale of Crude Oil, Gas and Tar Sands Within and Outside the Republic of Albania in 1993 was especially helpful in the effort. Five foreign companies are currently operative in crude- oil production...

..., with the formal approval of the Chad/Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project in June 2000, that country took a major step toward joining the select company of the world’s petrostates. Although Chad is the fifth-largest country in Africa, twice the size of Texas, with eleven hundred miles between...

... are shifting the geopolitical and geoeconomic interest of the United States in sub-Saharan Africa, which has been neglected for decades. The increased exploration in Africa has also generated fierce competition among major exploration companies and countries, and at times this has resulted in the subversion...

... to Europe. It is against this backdrop that Cecil Rhodes decided to syndicate diamond mines in South Africa with the objec- tive of creating a balance between demand and supply, and the coalition of the Kimberly and De Beers companies transformed the industry from one characterized by uncertainty...

...; and the impact of the new energy resources on the regional balance of power. Peter E. Paraschos is program director at International Technology and Trade Associates, Inc., a consulting company in Washington, DC. Copyright 2013 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2013...

..., a senior editorial page writer of the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper that Edelman mentioned as being a strong sup- porter of the Turkey-Israel–American-Jewish alliance, who, in an article on 16 February 2005, after an early February visit to Turkey in the company of Feith, expressed strong...

... visit of President Hu to Greece had cemented this cooperation with the signing of an agreement under which China’s Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) undertook to operate and man- age two container terminals at Greece’s main port of Piraeus.2 2. George Gilson, “PM Courts China Trade: Deputy...

... through which Turkey can construct economic relations with China for the optimal benefit of the country’s economy. While exports remained limited and imports continued to grow, Turkish companies have also failed to ben- efit from investment opportunities in China, and with the exception of small...

.... In 2001, the Ministry of Mines, Water, and Energy crafted the Mining Law of 2001 and the Petro- leum Code of 2000.21 The Mining Law regulated the exploration and mining of diamonds in Cameroon and remains the basis under which the govern- ment extended exploration and mining licenses to companies...

.... In 1971 Stevens created the National Diamond Mining Company (NDMC), which effectively nationalized the SLST. The new company operated directly under the auspices of the prime minister and his trusted friend, Jamil Mohammed, a Lebanese businessman. In 1984...

..., many international oil companies (IOCs) have suspended their operations in Iran. Furthermore, because of the Euro- pean ban on importing oil from Iran, most of the country’s exports go mainly to China and India. Strict limitations on IOCs’ investments have further complicated their role...

... Company and the Geostrategic Council of the Republic of Cyprus. Cyprus’s Natural Gas Strategy: Geopolitical and Economic Preconditions Theodoros Tsakiris The discovery of approximately 1 trillion cubic meters of gas in the deep waters of the Cypriot and Israeli exclusive economic zones...