within the framework of international political economy, this article discusses the situation of energy resources, including oil and gas, in central asia and argues that due to abundance of oil and gas resources in such countries as kazakhstan, turkmenistan and uzbekistan, and hefty revenues generated by those resources, statesmen in these countries are planning to turn central asia into a majo...

the shanghai cooperation organization (sco) is developing into a major regional institution in the heart of central eurasia. to make any predictions about the sco, one must examine factors contributing to russian and chinese foreign policy behaviors in central asia. does the seductive presumption of a looming battle for control of eurasia smell of a new “great game” and great power rivalry? ans...

this research seeks to study the impact of pan-turkist ideology on central asia. the collapse of the soviet :union: and independence of the central asian and caucasian states once again revitalized hopes among the pan-turkist theoreticians and strategists who were hopeless about the implementation of their project of establishing a turkic empire in the southern parts of the soviet :union:. cons...

The study of various countries rail transportation indicators is an appropriate criterion for evaluating the existing performance of Iranian railways. The experiences of other countries can be used to improve the efficiency of Iran’s rail transportation. At the beginning of the study, in order to compare the Iranian railway performance with railways of other countries, various efficiency indica...

the collapse of the soviet :union: had unpredicted effects on its neighboring regions such as central asia. these conditions provided a situation for the powers such as united states and russia to have a greater influence on central asia, and also to fill the absence of the power found by the collapse of soviet :union:. after september 11, 2001, united states of america, following the strategy ...

economic cooperation organization (eco) is one of the institutions that have been established to help identify and resolve the problems faced by the region. in order to celebrate the eco day, a meeting was held at the center for graduate international studies, faculty of law and political science, university of tehran as attended by yahya maroufi, eco secretary-general, mr. taherian, eco under-...

iran is situated at the center of a regional subsystem including the middle east, central asia, the caucasus, southwest asia and the persian gulf basin. iran's relations with each of these subsystems refer to a special ground that is rooted in the foundation of iranian civilization. if relations with each of these regions are designed according to cultural, economic and political realities...