More: geoeconomics
Germany and Italy within the European Union
No one is really fine in the European gas chamber but - just to paraphrase Orwell - someone is finer than the others. It...
Russia between economic crisis and geostrategic projections
As Lev Tolstoj maintained "There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time". These are two of the most characteristic traits of the...
The Russian Federation’s geopolitics
In a now famous speech delivered at the Conference on Security, held in Munich in 2007, Vladimir Putin harshly clarified the structural determinants of...
The TAPI Pipeline: The Politics of Energy Balancing
There is a new energy rush among many Greater Caspian states, one that continues to focus on breaking free of the heavy Russian influence...
The global power shift and the Role of Asian Players
The world of globalization has brought enormous veiled opportunities and challenges for the each of the developed, developing and under developed nation in the...
Saudi Arabia – Devaluation of the Riyal
The Saudi Riyal has been pegged to the US Dollar for the past 30 years but this may all soon change as the volatile...
The likely war between Iran and Saudi Arabia
With a view to better understanding what might happen in the future between the Shi’ite Republic of Iran and the Wahhabi and Sunni stronghold...
“Pyrrhic Sovereignty” – The Treasure of the Tengiz
History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes - or so goes the adage. This is at play in the Caspian today as...
From Energy Core to Currency War
A multi-spectrum war is being waged against Moscow by Washington. If there are any doubts about this, they should be put to rest. Geopolitics,...
Nuclear Commerce – fundamentals
Security, politico-military, legal and socio-economic aspects In an ever evolving and expanding world, there is a constant quest for both more energy and less...