More: Geopolitics
Clean Energy Has Questions to Answer
Xcel Energy out of Colorado is shutting
down two coal-fired generating power plants in favor of the largest solar-plus,
storage project in the United States (US)....
Reconstruction in Syria
From the
beginning, for Turkey the war in Syria has been a "domestic" problem-
albeit not entirely so.
For the West, it has been an opportunity to
hurt...
A new international Conference on Libya
The current
situation in Libya is far from simple.
In April 2019, Khalifa Haftar received from
the new Russian envoy, Lev Dengov, the polite order not to...
2019: Towards a new world (dis)order
The
Munich Security Conference is a leading annual forum on international security
and strategy. The theme of its recent installment, The Great Puzzle: Who Will Pick Up...
The Encroaching Impact of Arms Trade on South Asia’s Geopolitics
In his
famous farewell address to the American Public in 1961, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower had both defined and warned against the encroaching influence of
what was...
Power Projection of China
A coin has always two faces, an analyst is ought to analyze the both sides.
China is considered as flag holder of soft
power with a...
The origin of the Four Modernizations and President Xi Jinping’s current choices
On
September 13, 1971 Lin Biao tried to flee to the USSR with all his family,
aboard a Trident plane of civil aviation, which had left...
Chinese purchases of Iranian oil raise tantalizing questions
A fully loaded Chinese
oil tanker ploughing its way eastwards from two Iranian oil terminals raises questions of how far Beijing is willing to go...
Oil Market Report: Markets remaining calm
The theme we identified in last month’s Report of “mixed signals” is
appropriate again this month, with geopolitics and industry disruptions
confusing the supply outlook, and...
The crisis in Venezuela and its strategic significance
Venezuela’s
economy - in a country that has better oil reserves than Saudi Arabia and Iran
- began with the OPEC oil price crisis, when Chavez...