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Geopolitics

Geopolitical Summary: Conflicts, Protests, Oil Exploration and Drug Trafficking

Apr 06, 2011 at 06:57 | Global Intelligence Report

Conflict Rages on in Ivory Coast as Ouattara Forces Prepare for Abidjan OffensiveTensions in Syria as Government Resigns Amid Ongoing ProtestsIs Russia’s North Caucasus Rebel Network Leader Doku…

Gulf Cooperation Council Intervenes in Bahrain, in Unprecedented Move

Mar 14, 2011 at 21:54 | Global Intelligence Report

It appears the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has taken the unprecedented step of intervening militarily in the affairs of another member state to crush the democratisation movement there, which is…

United States Confronted With a New Awareness of its Military and Political Constraints

Mar 11, 2011 at 07:10 | Open Democracy

The momentous protests in the Arab region, and especially Libya, present the Barack Obama administration with a serious foreign-policy test. The conflict in this part of north Africa is the…

Russia Nervously Watching Events in the Middle East

Mar 04, 2011 at 08:37 | Robert Coalson

Authoritarian regimes across the Middle East and North Africa are falling apart one by one. Even oil-rich states like Libya, Bahrain, and Oman are not immune to the unrest. But…

The Extraordinary Events in the Middle East and the Coming Global Tsunami

Feb 28, 2011 at 07:51 | John Daly

The extraordinary events in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are the initial high tides of an eventual tsunami that will impact the world that globalists have so fervently promoted for decades,…

Delusional Gaddafi Ridiculed by the Arab World

Feb 24, 2011 at 07:55 | IWPR

The speech by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on February 22 - which was derided by many Arab analysts as delusional - sparked an interesting reaction across both the Arab mainstream…

Saudi Arabia and Iran's Interest in Oil Rich Bahrain's Growing Unrest

Feb 23, 2011 at 07:25 | David Caploe PhD

At the heart of the Bahrain crisis is a Sunni / Shia Muslim split that is not limited to the small island off Saudi Arabia, but extends throughout the Persian…

Iran-Turkey-Syria-Egypt Bloc Moves Closer With Profound Global Effect

Feb 18, 2011 at 08:32 | Gregory R. Copley

Egyptian Pres. Hosni Mubarak’s decision on the night of February 10, 2011, to hand over some of the powers of the Presidency to Vice-Pres. Omar Suleiman can only be seen…

Weekly Geopolitical Summary: Russian Oil Firms to Start Exploring in Bosnia

Feb 12, 2011 at 08:32 | Global Intelligence Report

In this weeks issue: - Foreign Investment for Disputed Nagorno-Karabakh? - Russian, Serbian Oil Firms to Start Exploring in Northern Bosnia- Suicide Bomber Kills 31 at Pakistani Army Base in Punjab

Ten Possible Strategic Ramifications of the Current Egyptian Unrest

Feb 09, 2011 at 07:29 | Gregory R. Copley

The prospect of an imminent, uncontrolled change in the leadership of Egypt, or other political paralysis in the state, as a result of growing popular unrest which began in the…

Qatar’s Growing Influence and Economy and the Dangers That Come With It

Feb 03, 2011 at 07:21 | Open Democracy

The small Gulf state of Qatar has translated economic assets and creative diplomacy into extraordinary global influence. But the eclipse of regional giants such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia is…

Crisis in the Arab World: Energy, Water, Food and Justice

Feb 01, 2011 at 08:04 | Open Democracy

The desperate act of an unemployed university graduate living in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid sparked a wave of popular unrest that in January 2011 overthrew the authoritarian regime…

Turmoil in The Middle East

Jan 29, 2011 at 12:17 | Business Insider

The force multipliers escalating events in the Middle East are television and social networking.  People in Egypt saw what happened in Tunisia and took heart.  People in Yemen were emboldened…

2011: Transition to a New Global Order

Jan 27, 2011 at 07:08 | Open Democracy

Three issues will dominate international relations in 2011: the United States’s relations with Europe, the emerging powers, and various countries of the global south; the ongoing international financial crisis (particularly…

Oil, Gas and Poverty: What does Turkmenistan Really Have to Offer Tourists

Jan 20, 2011 at 06:25 | David Trilling

For a country with the world’s fourth-largest gas reserves, Turkmenistan has a predictably glitzy capital, Ashgabat. And it would stand to reason that the prized Caspian port city an hour’s…

Tax Dispute Over Fuel Supplies at Manas Could Impede the Afghanistan War Effort

Jan 19, 2011 at 12:34 | Deirdre Tynan

A new tax dispute over fuel supplies at a strategically important air base in Kyrgyzstan is looming. US diplomats are concerned that potential wrangling could impede the war effort in…

India’s Secret Economic Weapon in its Race With China

Jan 18, 2011 at 08:24 | Ed Dolan

The eclipse of the G7 by the G20 puts the spotlight more than ever on India and China as the economic superpowers of the future. So far, China has the…

The Politics of Fear and Paranoia

Jan 08, 2011 at 10:31 | Open Democracy

We live in a highly organized climate of fear. If security organizations depend upon fear and paranoia to sustain their existence, Wikileaks suggests using the same tools to hold them…

Iranian Fuel Blockade Hurting Afghan Civilians

Jan 05, 2011 at 00:16 | RFE/RL staff

Afghans are grappling with rising fuel prices and dwindling supplies in the depth of winter, while convoys of relief aid stand idle just across the border with Iran. Thousands of…

Tough Choices Ahead in Afghanistan

Dec 27, 2010 at 10:53 | Open Democracy

Afghanistan continues to edge towards the precipice. State-building efforts in the country are still plagued with inefficiency, corruption and disorganisation, whilst international coalition forces in the form of Nato’s International…

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