List of Articles Central Asia and the Caucasus

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  1 - Influences of Arabic Spring and Color revolutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus
  Habibollah Abolhassan Shirazi
  Abstract Arabic uprisings which began from Tunisia and developed to Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, there was some questions to mind that the uprising could spread to other parts of the world? Possibility of long-term instability into Eurasia in More

  Abstract Arabic uprisings which began from Tunisia and developed to Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, there was some questions to mind that the uprising could spread to other parts of the world? Possibility of long-term instability into Eurasia in general and in the Caucasus and Central Asia in particular have created serious concerns about the occurrence of similar uprisings against the political regimes in the region. Arabic uprisings leading to the establishment of authoritarian regimes and prevent their societies form any development conditions. There are some similarities between the communist societies of the Soviet Union and the Arabic societies such as widespread corruption, lack of atmosphere of competitive politics and the gap between rich and poor class. Appearance of some colored revolutions in the CIS countries have also considered as an unexpected event in the third millennium.   This paper attempts to answer these questions that why and how Arabic Spring happened? How we can analysis influences of Arabic Spring in Central Asia and the Caucasus? This paper also investigates the formation of color revolutions in the Eurasia, causes and factors which influenced in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan developments. Manuscript profile
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  2 - European Union and Energy Security Challenges
  Alireza Soltani Reza Behmanesh
  Abstract: Energy, and the issues related to it, are among the most important topics in the European Union. Among the most central concerns in the European Union are the prospects for the provision and transfer of energy to Europe’s industries and economy. The exi More

  Abstract: Energy, and the issues related to it, are among the most important topics in the European Union. Among the most central concerns in the European Union are the prospects for the provision and transfer of energy to Europe’s industries and economy. The existence of realities such as the increasing rate of energy consumption and the consequent rise in the Union’s dependence on fossil fuel imports, have all led to the European Union’s concerns regarding energy supply and security. Such a noteworthy dependence has drawn the attention of the European Union towards the adoption of common and long-term policies for reducing the risks  and challenges surrounding energy security. The European Union’s concerns regarding Russia’s economic and political hegemony over energy resources in Central Asia and the Caucasus, have resulted in the Union’s quest for diversifying the routs used for the transfer of its energy and gas. Therefore, the Nabucco project which is one of the European Union’s projects concerning the diversification of suppliers of gas to the Union’s members, should be examined in the framework of the mentioned discourse. The main question raised by this article is that why European Union have followed diversifying its energy resources in recent years? The article is based on this hypothesis that the EU concerns regarding Russian monopoly on energy resources of Central Asia and Caucasus has led this block to diversify its energy resources and Nabucco Pipeline is one of its recent projects and routes for fulfilling this goal and reducing the risks and challenges for energy security.     Manuscript profile