Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Realising the Middle Corridor's potential requires to transform it into a major trade route -- Regional integration: creating traffic and demand on the route will largely stem from increased regional economic and trade integration -- Trade facilitation: reforms should focus on advancing digitalisation and harmonisation of border procedures and permit requirements -- Infrastructure: additional investments are needed to improve multimodality across the route and port and vessel capacity in the Caspian Sea -- Transnational co-operation: a common regional approach is required to implement these reforms, and deepen regional economic and trade integration -- 1 The Context: Growing interest in the Middle Corridor -- Central Asia, the South Caucasus and Türkiye can play a central role in intensifying regional co-operation and opening new trade routes -- Türkiye represents a central East-West and North-South trade hub -- Central Asia and the South Caucasus could benefit from a possible shift in China's regional trade and transit strategy -- The Middle Corridor constitutes a promising alternative to the Northern route, but much remains to be done to realise its potential -- The Middle Corridor is a viable, albeit complex, route connecting Asia to Europe through Central Asia and the South Caucasus -- This report assesses challenges and identifies reform priorities in relation to infrastructure, trade facilitation and stakeholder co-ordination along the Middle-Corridor -- Infrastructure bottlenecks and inadequate trade facilitation increase costs and transit times along the Middle Corridor -- Limited regional trade and economic integration in Central Asia and the South Caucasus further reduce the route's trade competitiveness…”

“…They have been catching up with the West over the past few decades. Greater market freedom has spread since the end of the Cold War, and with it institutional changes which have further assisted emerging economies in becoming more productive, flexible, and resilient. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Das deutsche historische Institut Paris -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Forschungsstelle auf „universitärer Basis" -- 3 Ein Ort wissenschaftlicher Forschung -- 3.1 Projekte -- 3.2 Zeitschrift -- 3.3 Ein Ort der transnationalen wissenschaftlichen Begegnung in Paris -- 4 Eine Mittlerinstitution im Dienste transnationaler Wissenschaftsbeziehungen -- 4.1 Vorträge -- 4.2 Kolloquien -- 4.3 Bibliothek -- 5 Die Gründung des DHI Paris: ein Spiegel der deutsch-französischen Annäherung -- Quellen und Literatur -- Globalisierte Gültigkeit: Internationale Politikanalyse am IIASA, 1972-1992 -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Wissenschaftsdiplomatie im Kalten Krieg -- 3 Institutionen des Austausches -- 4 Vom Ost-West-Institut zum IIASA -- 5 Ideengeschichte der internationalen angewandten Systemanalyse -- 6 Schluss -- Literatur -- Das Modell „Akademie der Wissenschaften" -- The Showcase of Czechoslovak Science: The Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science -- 1 Introduction - Roots in the Nazi Occupation -- 2 Protectorate Industrial Research Methods as a Model for Non-university Research after World War II -- 3 After the Liberation of Czechoslovakia -- 4 Through the Central Institute of Chemistry to the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences -- 5 Basic Research with Practical Results, Or the Institute as the Showcase of Czechoslovak Science -- 6 The Dream of the Global Centre of Chemical Research vs. …”