Caucasus Region The potential political struggle for dominance and insurgent activity in the Caucasus Region jeopardizes the infrastructure and economic resources of the countries within the region and the global economy. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is the major economic structure between the balances of power for the World. With Russia’s and Iran’s inability to corner the energy market‚ these key players are fueling dissention and unrest together with each countries internal disputes
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SUBJECT: Assessment of the Caucasus Region 1. ISSUE: Provide USEUCOM Commander an Overview of Azerbaijan’s approach to the situation in the Caucasus Region. 2. FACTS: The Republic of Azerbaijan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. This country has a republic government with a president‚ prime minister‚ and unicameral parliament. However‚ the presidential system dominates a historically weak parliament. Azerbaijan has strong ties with Turkey. Turkey supports Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh
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POINT PAPER SUBJECT: Assessment of the Caucasus Region 1. ISSUE. Provide the USEUCOM Commander an overview of Azerbaijan’s approach to the situation in the Caucasus Region. 2. FACTS. a. Primary National Interest: Azerbaijan’s primary national interest in regard to the Caucasus Region consists of three sets of inter-related areas: governance‚ energy‚ and security. It is in Europe’s interest to see the states of the Caucasus develop into strong sovereign states based on the rule
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CONGRESSIONAL BACKGROUND PAPER --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECJ5 APPROVED BY: ____________ MAJ Andrecht‚ Jay - 2015/03/09 STRATEGIC ESTIMATE OF THE CAUCASUS REGION • US Domestic Considerations are the oil pipeline through the Southern Caucasus Region and the Black Sea for trade access. • Non-US/Multinational Policy Goals‚ include NATO expansion in size and influence. Relations with Russia. Creation of an
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ARMENIA Armenia‚ officially the Republic of Armenia‚ is a landlocked‚ mountainous country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Turkey to the west‚ Georgia to the north‚ the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan to the east‚ and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. The largest Armenian populations are in Russia‚ the United States‚ France‚ Georgia‚ Iran‚ Lebanon‚ and
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SUBJECT: Assessment of the Caucasus Region 1. ISSUE. Provide the USEUCOM Commander an overview of Azerbaijan’s approach to the situation in the Caucasus Region. 2. Facts. a. Azerbaijan’s primary national interests in regards to the Caucasus Region are security and economy. The development of strong‚ secure and democratic nations within the Caucasus Region is strategically important to European and United States interests. Azerbaijan has moved to align with Western States and
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AZERBAIJAN POINT PAPER SUBJECT: Assessment of the Caucasus Region 1. ISSUE. Provide the USEUCOM Commander an overview of Azerbaijan’s approach to the situation in the Caucasus Region. 2. FACTS. a. Primary National Interest: Republic of Azerbaijan works to ensure sustained economic growth by protecting and exploiting proven oil reserves from deepwater Caspian Basin oilfields and its transport to growing western markets via the Baku-Tblilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil and associated South Caucasus
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Biodiversity Hotspots The Caucasus: The Caucasus hotspot‚ historically interpreted as the area of land between the Black and Caspian seas‚ covers a total area of 580‚000 km. Located at a biological crossroads‚ species from Central and Northern Europe‚ Central Asia‚ the Middle East and North Africa mingles here with endemics found nowhere else. One of the most biologically rich regions on Earth‚ the Caucasus is among the planet’s 25 most diverse and endangered hotspots. The Caucasus is one of WWF’s Global
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GROWTH IN REGIONS Nicola Gennaioli Rafael La Porta Florencio Lopez de Silanes Andrei Shleifer Working Paper 18937 http://www.nber.org/papers/w18937 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 April 2013 We are grateful to Jan Luksic for outstanding research assistance‚ to Antonio Spilimbergo for sharing the structural reform data set‚ and to Robert Barro‚ Peter Ganong‚ and Simon Jaeger for extremely helpful comments. Shleifer
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number of lines‚ intersections points‚ and bounded and unbounded regions. I plan to use rules to further define the relationship. The following relationships will be investigated: # Lines# Lines# Lines# Lines # Lines# Intersects# Lines# Lines# Lines# Lines- # unbounded regions min # bounded shapes max # bounded shapes # possibilities of intersections max. # Intersections # bounded regions min # bounded triangles max # bounded triangles # bounded regions (not perpendicular lines) #
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