Mutual cooperation between Kazakhstan and Turkey

from historical facts to geo-political realities: relation between turkey and armenia ( 1915 – 2010)

armenias geopolitics and its historical experience have had a determining impact on the character of its foreign policy .present-day armenia is a small, landlocked country with _11,620 square miles area armenias landlocked nature makes it dependent on the benevolence of its neighbors for access to the outside world a fact that gives it a sense of isolation and vulnerability. as it was indic...

russia-turkey cooperation: objectives, scope and outlook

historically, turkish-russian relations have been cold and distant. during the cold war, the two former rivals viewed each other with hostility. after the fall of the ussr and in the early 1990s, the grounds were paved for the improvement in the bilateral ties. even though the two states have different military and security concerns, they have established closer relations in economic and trade ...

Development of University-Industry Cooperation in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Predation versus Cooperation in Mutual Fund Families

In this paper we investigate how mutual funds react to the distress of another fund in the same fund family. We test three alternative hypotheses: (1) funds help the distressed fund, (2) funds front-run the distressed fund improving their relative performance in the fund family and, (3) the family coordinates and benefits from front-running the distressed fund. Our results suggest that fund man...

Emergence of Cooperation Through Mutual Preference Revision

This paper proposes a method allowing an agent to perform in a socially fair way by considering other agents’ preferences. Such a balanced action selection process is based on declarative diagnosis, which enables the removal of contradictions arising as all agents’ preferences are confronted within the deciding agent. Agents can be negatively affected when some of their preferences are not resp...