...Olusegun Obasanjo This essay by Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria, examines the challenges (AIDS, poverty, and governance) and opportunities (receptive investment climate, increasing democratization process, and a new framework for development) that African countries must deal...

... the accelerating regional competition to develop offshore energy resources; the related pursuit of major foreign investment for upstream energy development; consequences for regional gas export markets, notably the European Union; the influence of regional rivalries and conflicts on regional energy development...

... a firsthand account of the scale and scope of Beijing’s economic and, to a lesser extent, cultural investment in the region and of the way that local society is reacting to the changes. The essay also considers what the effects are for the traditional regional power, Russia, and looks at the Kremlin’s...

... with the nearly seventy casinos currently in “Northern Cyprus”, especially as both sides of Cyprus forbid gambling. The author argues that with Turkey and private investors pouring millions of investment dollars into “Northern Cyprus”, the changing economic reality of the occupied area is leading inevitably...

...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...

... significant trade and foreign investment as well as reconstruction assistance from Tehran, it has been less successful in consolidating an Iranian-sponsored coalition to ensure victory in national elections. Jason E. Strakes is an analyst at the Army Reachback Research Center, Newport News, Virginia...

... of the Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative, one of the BRI’s two main components. China’s maritime activity in the Mediterranean Sea and its shores consists mainly of constructing and operating ports or railways. The investments in sea-lanes and railways complement each other and jointly open new...

...: 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...

... institutions. Peterson: Life after Oil  5 A second, far more realizable strategy has been investment. In part, invest- ment has been a short-term strategy to park budget surpluses temporarily or to provide backing for budgetary stabilization purposes. More...

... Africa is a key supplier to China and a growing market for Chinese and European goods. However, this new Mediterranean centrality should not be taken for granted. New economic links, trade, and investments must be built, because the Mediterranean Sea is not the only way to link Europe and Asia...

... of economic interdepen- dence. The economic interdependence between the United States and other subregions of the world can be measured through statistics on trade flows and foreign investment. The intensity of U.S. economic-national interests would...

..., and South Korea also showed extraor- dinary interest in Africa. Their roles in development, as well as the role of China, inevitably precipitated a new “scramble for Africa.” The Europeans were afraid of China’s competition, aggressive investment posture, and grow- ing influence in Africa at a time...

... savings rates in the country — Turkey depends on foreign funds to finance its deficit, and most of the funds that are coming into the country are in the form of short-­term portfolio funds seeking quick profits and not in the form of longer term funds or foreign direct investments.5 Long-­ term...

... 2005, trade, investment, and tourism between the two have increased significantly. At first glance, it is not entirely obvious what spurred this relationship between two distant countries, unequal in terms of size, population, economy, and stra- tegic concerns, and what led it to take off...

... companies would also be able to invest in international oil and gas companies that operated in Kurdistan-Iraq. In December 2004, Michael Gulbenkian, the grandson of the notorious Calouste Gulbenkian, a late nine- teenth and early twentieth century oil entrepreneur, also known as “5 percent Gulbenkian...

... and investment. Most foreign companies either left the country or significantly slowed their operations in compliance with the sanctions. As a result, oil production dropped from almost 3.7 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2011 to 2.7 million b/d in 2013, and exports fell from 2.6 million b/d to 1.3...

... invest- ment in Greece, the North Aegean Petroleum Corporation, began exploring for oil off the Greek Aegean island of Thasos in March 1987. In response, Turkey sent an oil exploration vessel escorted by warships to waters off the Greek islands of Lesvos, Limnos, and Samothrace. An armed conflict...

..., and foreign investment has fl ooded in. One of the main consequences of these developments has been a reduction in the eco- nomic differentials that separated Portugal from the European average. Since 1986, Portugal’s average per capita income has grown from 56 percent of the EU average to about 74...

... November 2014, Xi chaired a meeting of the Chi- nese Party-­State’s Leading Small Group on Financial Affairs (zhongyang caijing lingdao xiaozu) calling for the newly established Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to join Chinese policy banks in providing funds for projects...

... migration, trade and investment [and it is of] vital importance for the EU to assist the Mediterranean countries to overcome the challenges they face.”4 The official partnership between the EU and the TMCs was finally estab- lished on 27–28 November 1995. The institutional framework of this rela- tion...