Turkey-Russia Relations and High-Level Cooperation Council

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 ...

Travel Medicine in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

a reappraisal in russia and america relations

the united states and russia are two important actors in international system. the geography of their national interests is global and extra-regional; therefore, the quality of their relationship affects the security of international system. it can create security or can cause insecurity in international system. after the disintegration of soviet :union: there has been more interaction between ...

Turkey-EU relations

Ever since Turkey and the EU began membership negotiations in 2005, the process has been riddled with difficulties which have impacted on broader Turkey-EU ties. Relations took a further blow last week following the publication of the European Commission’s 2012 Progress Report. Out of the fifteen reports that Turkey has received to date, this was one of the hardest-hitting in recent times, crit...

Business Cycle Synchronization and Patterns of Trade: Cases from Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

 Do similarities in trade patterns of GCC countries (UAE, KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman), which are geographically and politically alike and also enjoy oil income, affect the synchronization of their business cycles and make them have similar booms and busts? In this paper, we attempt to connect these two features and explore this question. Using various estimation methods (Common Corre...