Global Footwear Industry and Pakistan: History and Significance of Rising Markets

Footwear Industry has been growing since the earliest human history, archaeological finds of complete shoes date back to the Chalcolithic (ca. 5.000 BCE). Some ancient civilizations, such as Egypt and Greece however saw no practical need for footwear due to convenient climatic and landscape situations and used shoes primarily as ornaments and insignia of power. Footwear has always remained an unmistakable signs of power and status in society as...

Developmental Perspectives for Azerbaijan: Post-war Scenarios of Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

What war causes to a country, nation, and its people is something thought-provoking. It takes years to bring back the lost stability and what the war has caused a country. Let us look at the history and post-war scenarios of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and developmental Perspectives for Azerbaijan, the biggest country of caucus region. • Background of Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a long five-week war in the...

Eastern European Partnership and Future of Trans-continental Countries

Regional cooperation is one of the fundamental elements of any organization along with mutual agreements on different policies between the countries. Many organizations in the world are voluntarily working for the promotion of unity, peace, and mutual cooperation in the region. The Eastern European Partnership was formed with the same mindset. The EAP is a joint initiative of its Member States and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, and the...

European Union, Eastern European Partnership and Role of Turkey

European Union (EU) is a political and economic union established on November, 1 1993 in Maastricht, Netherlands to create stability and mutual cooperation between its member countries. It consists of 27 member states that are subjected to the obligations and privileges of being a member of the Union and the members of eastern Europe under the Eastern European Partnership program having limited privileges of Union. For every member state, there...

Regional Impact of Arab-Israel Relationship

Peace was an uncommon phrase in the introduction of Arab-Israel relationships since decades. Many Arab states were on a single page unitedly in their hostility and enmity towards Israel extending their support for Palestinian cause. In the recent years, we have seen changing scenarios of these political equations. The mainstream grudge of Arab countries with Israel has witnessed a quiet rapprochement as conversations have taken place on common...