The paper examines the energy-growth nexus in ten oil-exporting developing Eurasian
countries: Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia …

This article is study of Azerbaijan oil and gas industry. It illustrates the business climate, the
impact of this sector on Azerbaijan's economy including role of SOFAZ and highlights recent …

The interconnection between international organizations (IOs) membership and
democratization has become a topic of intense debate. However, the main focus of the …

The novelty of this study is that it empirically tests four hypotheses of the Dutch Disease in
the Azerbaijan economy while systematically controls for other possible explanations of the …

The work linking natural resource wealth to authoritarianism and under-development suffers
from several shortcomings. In this article, the authors outline those shortcomings and …

Some treaties are signed and then ratified quickly while others languish in legal limbo,
unratified by one or more parties. What explains this variation in the time between signature …

▪ Abstract The empirical literature on political Islam is fairly rich and getting better, but
theoretical interpretations of these data are still quite primitive. This gap is a product of …

From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing
communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the heart of our oil-obsessed …

While many studies have examined the external dimensions of democratization, the role of
external anti-democratic factors remains unaddressed. Using an original dataset to analyze …

Economic globalization and, in particular, foreign direct investment (FDI) have often been
considered to be catalysts for economic reform and political liberalization. It is argued that …