Articles tagged with: gas
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Sunday, 12 May, 2013
Whoever became Egypt's first Arab Spring president would have faced almost insurmountable challenges in realizing a stable and successful transition. Egypt's uprising emerged from a broad range of grievances and its transitional leaders have a diverse selection of ideologies and goals, many of which predate January 25, 2011.
Even bearing all this in mind, there is a growing consensus that Mohamed Mursi is universally failing as a leader. A quick glance at social media reveals that a vast ...
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Monday, 18 Feb, 2013
My career as a diplomatic reporter began just a couple of months before the start of the First Gulf War. It was then that the sentence “maintaining the territorial integrity of Iraq” became embedded in every one of my articles, reflecting Turkey’s fears over Iraq’s potential disintegration.
Turkey’s concerns stemmed from developments in Iraq’s Kurdish north. Fearing massacre at home, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurds were fleeing across the border into Turkey. Unable to co...
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Wednesday, 5 Dec, 2012
Prepare for the Shale gas boom. Today the phrase is plastered across the world’s leading newspapers with much dramatic effect. They are not alone: seasoned energy experts are...
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Thursday, 17 May, 2012
It has long been speculated that oil can be a driver for civil conflict, and one needs to look no further for evidence than the sectarian power politics now playing out in Iraq...
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Monday, 21 Nov, 2011
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Daniel Yergin
Allen Lane, 2011
The Quest by Daniel Yergin is a magisterial account of the comp...
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Monday, 15 Aug, 2011
For a year and seven months, relatives of Abdul Ghaffar Lango heard nothing of his whereabouts. His abduction by armed plain-clothes men in the Pakistani province of Balochista...
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Wednesday, 27 Jul, 2011
In a televised speech marking the fifth anniversary of the Second Lebanon War on Tuesday, Hassan Nasrallah, in line with his secretary comments a week earlier, warned Israel ag...
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Thursday, 28 Apr, 2011
The issue brief “Eurasian Energy: Hot and Cold,” caters specifically to the US’s interest in achieving energy security, outlining the geopolitical dynamics of the cur...
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