Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy

January 15, 2012
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Vladimer Papava

Vladimer Papava is Senior Fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, Senior Associate Fellow of the Joint Center formed by the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (Johns Hopkins University-SAIS) and the Silk Road Studies Program (Uppsala University). He previously served as Minister of Economy (1994-2000) and Member of Parliament of the Republic of Georgia (2004-2008). In 2005-2006, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, The Nitze School–SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (Washington, D.C.). Dr. Papava holds PhD in Economics (kandidat nauk) from Central Economic and Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow, 1982), PhD in Economics from Tbilisi State University (1989) and Leningrad State University (1990). He has authored more than 200 publications, including works on the theoretical and applied studies on post-Communist economies and economic development of the Central Caucasus countries. He is a corresponding member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. His personal web-page may be accessed at http://www.papava.info.

Authors articles:

Central Caucaso-Asia: Toward A Redefinition Of Post-Soviet Central Eurasia The disintegration of the Soviet Union not only resulted in the rise of a group of new independent states but in their integration into newly defined geopolitical areas. In recent years, the term Central Eurasia, which refers to Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, has been attracting attention as a distinct geopolitical area...

Pipeline Harmonization Instead Of Alternative Pipelines: Why The Pipeline “Cold War” Needs To End The countries of the European Union are now so dependent on Russian energy resources that this has given Moscow a highly effective tool to put political pressure not only on them but also on those countries like Belarus and Ukraine across which these resources flow to reach Europe. Not surprisingly, European Union countries have looked for other sources, including the Caspian basin states. But what is troubling is that these sources are inevitably modified by adjectives like “alternative,” a conscious or unconscious reflection of a view that there is an inherent confrontation between Russia and the rest of the world on energy issues...