Geopolitics in the News

02-02-13 "Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe's Crisis" by Louise Story, Landon Thomas, Jr. and Nelson D. Schwartz, NYTimes

01-01-20 "France Likiely to Sell Warship to Russia" by Nichoas Kralev, The Washington Times

01-01-20 "US-Russia Deal on Afghan Transit is Working: Ambassador", AFP

01-01-19 "Why Russia Still Matters in the Asian Century" by John Lee, World Politics Review

01-01-18 "Interactive Ukraine Election Maps", Kyiv Post

01-01-17 "Ukraine is Headed for Hantional Bankruptcy: Russia Would be the Natural Partner to Step in and Help, but at Considerable Cost to Kiev's Independence" by Christopher Granville, WSJ 

01-01-17 "Asia-Pacific's Future Geopolitics" by Richard Scamehorn, Lancaster Eagle Gazette

01-01-13 "Pipeline Geopolitics: Major Turnaround. Russia, China, Iran Redraw Energy Map:

Turkmenistan Commits its Gas Exports to China, Russia & Iran" by Amb. M. K. Bhadrakumar, GlobalResearch.ca

01-01-11 "Disarming Hezbollah:Advancing Regional Stability" by Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson, Foreign Affairs 

01-01-11 "China Says Missile Defense System Test Successful," Associated Press

01-01-11 "Understanding Geopolitical Reality," Daily News [Sri Lanka]

01-01-11 "Are 'Ungoverned Spaces' A Threat?" by Stewart M. Patrick, Council on Foreign Relations

01-01-11 "Guns for Peace" by Doug Bandow, National Review Online

01-01-10 "Divide and Confound--Or Divide and Empower?  The Opportunities and Dangers of Strategic Psyop Against the Alawi Rulers of Syria" by Timothy R. Furnish, History News Network

01-01-10 "India & U.S.: Haunting Past & Beckoning Future" by B. Raman, Sri Lanka Guardian

01-01-10 "Geopolitics after World War I" by Richard Scamehorn, Lancaster Eagle Gazette

01-01-08 "Israel Readies New Anti-Missile System," UPI.com

01-01-08 "Regional Balance to be Tilted Against Chavez" by Alvaro Vargas Llosa, The Australian 

01-01-07 "China Now Controls Majority of Canada's Athabasca Oil Sands Corp." by John Laumer, Tree-hugger

n.d. "Top Risks of 2010" Ian Bremmer and David Gordon, Eurasia Group [Accessed 10-01-06]

10-01-06 "Afghan War has Stopped Making Sense" by Doug Bandow, The Australian

10-01-05 "Iran Shielding its Nuclear Efforts in a Maze of Tunnels" by William J. Broad, NYT

10-01-05 "Russia-India Ties Sour in Central Asia" by Peter Lee, Asia Times Online

10-01-04 "Only the Islamic World Wants Russia to Recover as Great Power, Muslim Analyst in Moscow Says" by Paul Goble, Georgiandaily.com [Original presentation, in Russian, here.]

10-01-04 "Tensions Flare in Russia-Belarus Pipeline Talks" by William Mauldin & Richard Boudreaux, WSJ Online

10-01-03 "Geopolitics before World War I" by Richard Scamehorn, Lancaster Eagle Gazette 

10-01-01 "'Is War Around the Corner?'" by Vice Admiral Arun Kumar Singh, Indian Defense Review Online

10-01-01 "Britain Must be Prepared to Defend Its Place in the World," by Malcolm Rifkind, Telegraph.co.uk

10-01-01 "Special Relationship with UK Stronger Than Ever, says US Ambassador", The Guardian 

09-12-31 "Re-Thinking the Art of Military Planning" by Gregory R. Copley, Oilprice.com [accessed via OpEdNews.com]

09-12-29 "China's Not a Superpower" by Minxin Pei, Carnegie Endowment for Peace

09-12-28 "Iraq Oil Output to Rival Saudi Arabia, if…" by Ben Lando, Roubini Global Economics

09-12-28 "Where Russia Meets China: Siberia has Timber and Minerals but Very Few People & Don't Call them Twin Cities" by Joshua Kucera, Slate

09-12-26 "Will Russia Save the West?" by Sergei Karaganov, The Japan Times Online

09-12-26 "Threat from Salafists Emerges as Hamas and Israel Break from Fighting" by James Hider, Times Online

09-12-22 "China Secures Gas from Turkmenistan: Who's the Real Winner?" by Philip H. de Leon, OilPrice.com [accessed via Resource Investor]

09-12-22 "The Battle for Tora Bora" by Peter Bergen, The New Republic

09-12-22 "Weapons Seizure Hits North Korea Hard" by Brian McCartan, Asia Times Online

09-12-21 "The Iranian Incursion in Context" by George Friedman, Stratfor

09-12-18 "Twitter Attacked by 'Iranan Cyber Army'" by Sam Gustin, Daily Finance

09-12-18 "A Global Order is Swept Away in the Rapids of History" by Philip Stephens, Financial Times

09-12-18 "Iraqi Oil Contracts:Did America Lose Out?" by Donald M. Snow, Atlantic Council

09-12-14 "China Tightens Central Asia hold with New Gas Link" by Marat Gurt, Reuters

09-12-12 "Stability and Security Cast Doubt over Investment" by Robin Pagnamenta, Times On Line

09-12-17 "Imperial New World Order Strategy the Origins of World War III" by Andrew G. Marshall, The Market Oracle [Part II: "Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III"; Part I: "Imperial New World Order Strategy the Origins of World War III"]

09-12-17 "The Rise of a Southern Axis" by Nick Miroff, Glboal Post

09-12-15 "Moldova at the Crossroads" by Samuel Charap and Yekaterina Chertova, Center for American Progress 

09-12-09 "10 Looming Geopolitical Disasters" by Lawrence Delevigne, The Business Insider

09-12-08 "Bolivia has Enough Lithium for 4.8 Billion Electric Cars!" by Michael Graham Richard, TreeHugger

09-12-07 "Medvedev's New Security Vision" by Vladimir Yevseyev, The Moscow Times

09-12-04 "Geopolitical Crossroads: Pentagon, NATO Complete Conquest of Balkans" by Rick Rozoff, OpEdNews

09-11-28 "The Geopolitics of the Dubai Debt Crisis: It's Iran vs. the United States" by John Carney, The Business Insider

09-11-26 "Now, China Bristles over India's Ties with the United States" by Venkatesan Vembu, DNA

09-11-24 "Mistral: A Cold French Wind Blows East" by David J. Smith, GeorgianDaily.com

09-11-22 "Afghan Tribes to the Rescue" by David Ignatius, Washington Post

09-11-21 "Afghan Militias Battle Taliban with Aid of U.S." by Dexter Flikins, New York Times

09-11-18 "The Great Geopolitical Battle over Energy Transit Routes" by Philip H. de Leon, Financial Express

09-11-18 "Mr. Obama's Modesty May Yet Mirror his Success" by Michael Young, The National

09-11-18 "China's Currency: A Yuan-Sided Argument: Why China Resists Foreign Demands to Revalue its Currency", The Economist 

09-11-18 "Political Impasse takes Nepal to Brink" by Dhruba Adhikary, Asia Times Online

09-11-18 "Regional Integration is a Pipedream" by Razeen Sally, The Business Times

09-11-17 "The Big Picture" by Bharat Verma, Indian Defence Review 

09-11-17 "Hamas and Its Long-Range Rockets: Military and Political Implications" by Jeffrey White, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

09-11-17 "Digital Sovereignty: What's at Stake?" by Guillaume Tissier, Europolitics

09-11-17 "A Bonapartist in the Indian Ocean" by M K Bhadrakumar, Asia Times Online

09-11-16 "What if We Fail in Afghanistan" by Steve Coll, The New Yorker

00-11-16 "The Taliban's Winter Plans" by Gavin Greenwood, Asia Sentinel

09-11-16 "Arctic Sovereignty" by Rob Huebert, The Globe and Mail

09-11-16 "The Untapped Energy Riches of Uzbekistan" by John C.K. Daly, The FInancial

09-11-16 "Next, Locusts? The Abject Failure of the Obama Administration's Middle East Policy"
by Elliott Abrams, The Weekly Standard

09-11-15 "The Great Wallop" by Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick, New York Times

09-11-12 "2009 Waziristan Conflict Map" by Jan Reza and Charlie Szrom, American Enterprise

09-11-11 "When the Wall Fell, Asia Rose" by Brahma Chellaney, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

09-11-11 "Why Pearl Harbor is Still Essential" by James Holmes, Taipei Times

09-11-11 "Brazil to Rich Countries: Pay Up, Or the Rain Forrest Gets It" by Alex Salakever, DailyFinance

09-11-10 "Small War or Big Problem? Fighting on the Yemini-Saudi Border" by Simon Henderson, The Washington Institute

09-11-10 "'Strategic Reassurance' That Isn't" by Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal, Washington Post

09-11-09 "Japanese Missile Defense Matters" by Brian T. Kennedy, Wall Street Journal

09-11-09 "McChrystal Lite" by Tom Donnelly and Tim Sullivan, The Weekly Standard [accessed 09-11-01]

09-11-09 "Letter from Gaza: Captives: What Really Happened During the Israeli Attacks" by Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker

09-11-07 "South-East Asia: A Beacon of Maritime Collaboration: Lessons for India from the Littoral States" by Harnit Kang, Mainstream Weekly

09-11-05 "The Nine Nations of China" by Patrick Chovanec, The Atlantic

09-11-05 "Russia, India and China Go Their Ways" by M. K. Bhadrakumar, AsiaTimes. Online

09-11-04 "Israel: Commandos Seize Huge Iranian Arms Shipment" by Aaron Heller, AP [accessed via Google]

09-11-04 "Defense Officials Say Weapons were Bound for Syria, Hizbullah" by Yaakov Katz, The Jerusalem Post

09-11-04 "Russia Casts a Wary Eye on Deepening US-Georgia Cooperation" by Giorgi Kvelashvili, Georgian Daily

09-11-04 "Fighting the 'Good' War" by Jack A. Smith, Asia Times Online

09-11-03 "Eurasian Energy: Circumstances Pushing Iran and Pakistan to Link Up" by Stephen Blank, Eurasianet.org

09-11-03 "Obama's Strategy of Buying Time" by George Friedman, STRATFOR [accessed via RCW]

09-11-03 "Russia's Etermal Military-Industrial Kolkhoz" by Alexander Golts, The Moscow Times

09-11-03 "Will IMF Gold Sale Boost Bullion Price? Reseve Bank of India Buys 200 Tonnes, Raising Speculation that China Will Buy Next" by Surojit Gupta and Lesley Wroughton, The Globe and Mail

09-11-02 "The Story of 'Operation Orchard': How Israel Destroyed Syria's Al KIibar Nuclear Reactor" by Erich Follath and Holger Stark, Spiegel Online 

09-11-02 "Eastern Promises" by Baladas Ghoshal, The Times of India

09-11-02 "Turkey-Iran Ties Grow, As do Question Marks" by Yigal Schleifer, Kuwait Times

09-11-02 "Poland Proposes Strategic Alliance" by Mariusz Handzlik, Center for European Policy Analysis

09-11-02 "Bolivia Advances on 'Mega-Lithium Project'" by Marcelo Balllve, South Meridian

09-11-02 "Arkhangelsk to Become Center for Higher Education in Artic", BarentsObserver.com  

09-11-02 "Afghanistan, The Baltics, and Caucasus: NATO and the West Extending the War far Beyond Their Borders" by Rick Rozoff, Media Monitors Network [Text dated 09-11-01]

09-11-01 "Soft and Hard Power Needed in Afghanistan" by David Ignatius, Washington Post [accessed via RCW]

09-10-31 "Maoist Rebels Widen Deadly Reach Across India" by Jim Yardley, NYTimes.com

09-10-31 "Iran's Nuclear Response Creates a Quandry" by Andrew Lee Butters, Time

09-10-31 "The Missiles of October: The Next Hemispheric Crisis Could Involve Venezuela and Iran" by Warren Kozak, WSJ

09-10-30 "Significance of East Asia" by Kazuo Ogoura, The Japan Times Online

09-10-30 "The Return of Israel's Existential Dread" by Yossi Klein Halevi, Wall Street Journal

09-10-29 "Death Cometh for the Greenback" by Joseph E. Stiglitz, The National Interest Online [accessed via Motley Fool]

09-10-29 "Indian Ocean Great Power Confrontation: The Geo-Poliltics of of the Sri Lankan Civil War" by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Sri Lanka Guardian

09-10-29 "London Cuts Prince of Wales in Two Halves and Throws F-35 Fighters Out" by Sergey Balmasov, Pravda.ru

09-10-29 "Turkey: Kurdish Peace Initiative Builds Momentum" by Nicholas Birch, EurasiaNet.com

09-10-29 "Q+A - Any Switch to Non-Dollar Oil Remains Distant" by Barbara Lewis, Forbes.com

09-10-29 "Is Britain Facing a Gas Crisis?", UPI.com

09-10-29 "Israel's New Weapon: Water" by Matt Beynon Rees, Global Post [accessed via RCW]

09-10-28 "No Requiem for this Pipe Dream" by Peter Foster, Calgary Herald

09-10-28 "The Byzantine Doctrine: What the United States Could Learn from the Military and Foreign Policy of the Byzantine Empire" by Stuart Koehl, The Weekly Standard

09-10-28 "Sri Lanka: The New Great Game" by Sergei De-Silva-Ranasinghe, Sri Lanka Guardian

09-10-28 "Post-Mumbai: 3,000 New Posts for Coast Guard", Mangalorean.com

09-10-28 "America in Decline? Think Again" by Edward Lawrence, RCW

09-10-28 "American Preeminence is Disappearing FifteenYears Early" by Michael T. Klare, Alarab Online

09-10-27 "An Ice-Free Boom" by Barry Zellen, FP Comment

09-10-27 "The Taliban Will Fight for Their Last Bastion: And They Will Lose" by Shaukat Qadir, TheNational

09-10-27 "Putin's Game: Why Russia Won't Cooperate on Iranian Sanctions" by Seth Robinson, The New Republic

09-10-27 "Fatah Resurrected" by Khalil Shikaki, National Interest Online

09-10-27 "China's Growing Ties with Emerging Markets: What It Means for Geopolitics" by FinFacts Team, FinFacts Ireland

09-10-26 "The US-Panama Free Trade Agreement: A Good Deal for America" by James Roberts,  Heritage Foundation (accessed via RCW)

09-10-26 "Iraq versus Afghanistan: A Surge is Not a Surge is not a Surge" by Nathan Freier, Maren Leed, and Rick Nelson, CSIS (accessed via RCW)

09-10-26 "No Fix Soon on a Palestinian State: Portents of a Two-State or a One-State Solution" by Arnaud de Borchgrave, The Washington Times 

09-10-26 "Preparing for Iranian Hegemony in the Middle East" by Gary H. Johnson, Jr., American Thinker

09-10-25 "Russia, Iran and the Biden Speech" by George Friedman and Peter Zeihan, STRATFOR [accessed via Georgiandaily.com]

09-10-26 "Jordan's Ties with Israel Turn Cold" by Suha Philip Ma’ayeh, TheNational

09-10-26 "Africa Becoming Major Oil Factor", Southern Times

09-10-25 "Saudi Arabia's Autumn of Risks" by Matein Khalid, Khaleej Times Online

09-10-25 "Talibanized Pakistan and Threat to Regional Security" by Maloy Krishna Dhar, Frontier India World Affairs

09-10-24 "The Dethroning of King Dollar? What the Currency Turmoil Means" by Irwin M. Stelzer, The Weekly Standard

09-10-24 "Taliban's Leader Stronghold Falls to Pakistani Army" by Declan Walsh, guardian.co.uk

09-10-23 "Stoke China's Fears" by Ted Galen Carpenter, The National Interest Online

09-10-23 "Great Power Confrontation in the Indian Ocean: The Geo-Politics of the Sri Lankan Civil War" by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, GlobalResearch.ca (Centre for Research on Globalization)

09-10-23 "Armageddon Time" by Peter Robinson, Forbes.com

09-10-23 "China, India Border Stokes Rivalry" by Peter Wonacott, WSJ.com

09-10-22 "Brown Goes Wobbly on Afghanistan" by Con Coughlin, WSJ.com

09-10-22 "Insurgents Share a Name, but Pursue Different Goals" by Scott Shane, The New York Times

09-10-22 "Resetting NATO Relations" by Donald K. Bandler and Jakub Kulhanek, The Moscow Times

09-10-22 "Ten Years to Tackle the Taiwan Equation" by Francesco Sisci, Asia Times Online

09-10-22 "Neither Moscow nor Beijing  Wants the Russian Far East to be Independent, Russian Analyst Says" by Ron Goble, GeorgianDaily.com

09-10-22 "Freeport's Back (And so is Their Dividend)" by David Lee Smith, The Motley Fool

09-10-21 "Power Politics in Burma's Yetagun Gas Field" by Our Correspondent, Asia Sentinel

09-10-21 "Sechin Divides the the Balck Sea: Dramatic Turkey Move Upends Russian Geopolitical Strategy, Upsets Lukoil and Gazprom" by John Helmer, GlobalPost.com

09-10-21 "Ahmed Rashid Takes on the Crisis in AfPak" by Ahmed Rashid, The National Insterest

09-10-20 "Is There a Middle Way? The Problem with Half-Measures in Afghanistan" by Stephen Biddle, The New Republic

09-10-20 "The Afghanistan Problem:  The Huge Cultural Misunderstandings Between Western forces and the Afghan People Make It Unlikely Any Counterinsurgency Mission in the Countryside will Succeed" by Gilles Dorronsoro, LA Times

09-10-20 "South America: An Analysis of Arms Races and Geopolitics", MercoPress

09-10-20 "Geopolitics of Moscow-Belgrade Relationship", Stratfor [accessed via B92]

09-10-20 "Snubbed by Europe, Now Turkey Looks to the East" by Emile Hokayem, The National Newspaper

09-10-19 "Pillars of the Next American Century" by James Kurth, The American Interest Online

09-10-19 "The Front: The Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger" by Peter Bergen, The New Republic

09-10-19 "The Secret War Continues: Latest Explosions in Lebanon Another Chapter in Clandestine Battle" by Ronen Bergman, YNetNews.org 

09-10-19 "Why India Fears China" by Jeremy Kahn, Newsweek [accessed 09-10-10] 

09-10-19 "Decline is a Choice: The New Liberalism and the End of American Ascendancy" by Charles Krauthammer, The Weekly Standard [accessed 09-10-10]

09-10-18 "Stanley McChrystal's Long War" by Dexter Flikins, New York Times Magazine

09-10-17 "Truck Bomb Destroys Key Bridge in Western Iraq" by Barbara Surk, Associated Press

09-10-16 "How Turkey was Lost to the West" by Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post [accessed via RCW]

09-10-16 "A Hitch in Iran's Nuclear Plans" by David Ignatius, The Washington Post

09-10-16 "Russia's Unsustainable Energy Model" by David Clark, Financial Times (FT.com)

09-10-14 "An Independent Israeli Foreign Policy?", Stratfor [accessed via RCW]

09-10-14 "China's Hard Choices on Iran" by Jon B. Alterman, World Politics Review

09-10-14 "Debating the Dragon-Bear Duet" by Anna Konopatskaya, Asia Times Online

09-10-13 "Strategic Blow to Israel ... Turkey is No Longer a Strategic Ally of Israel", Ron Ben-Yishai in YNetnews.com

09-10-13 "Why Russia isn't Afraid of an Iran Bomb" by Boris Morozov, Jerusalem Post

09-10-13 "Dollar Loses Reserve Status to Yen and Euro" by Paul Tharp, New York Post

09-10-12 "Continental Divide: Russian Pipeline Heightens Eastern Europe Fears" by Andrew W. Kramer, New York Times

09-10-10 "After the Pax Americana" by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz, The Houston Chronicle

09-10-09 "Behind the Sri Lankan Bloodbath: Colombo's Victory over the Tamils shows India's Power on the Wane" by Brahma Chellaney, Forbes

09-10-08 "How to Win Afghanistan" by Bruce Hoffman, The National Interest Online

09-10-08 "Course Correction" by Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic

09-10-07 "Black Sea Could Rival Russia in Gas" by EUObserver.com, Business Week

09-10-06 "Shale Gas: A Game Changer with Global Implications", Kenneth B. Medlock III in James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy

09-10-06 "The Demise of the Dollar" by Robert Fisk, The Independent

09-09-28 "The Bear Still has Teeth" by Robert D. Kaplan, The Atlantic

09-09-28 "Twilight of Pax Americana" by Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwartz, LA Times

09-09-24 "The New Geopolitics" by  Dieter Farwick, IISS 7th Global Strategic Review

09-09-24 A Very Foreign Policy: In Cancelling the European Missile Shield, Obama is Overturning a Century of Foreign Policy by Tristram Hunt, The Guardian

09-09-18 "A Dangerous New Afghan Road Opens" by Derek Henry Flood, Asia Times Online

09-09-17 "He is Almost Unknown, but the Ideas of Sir Halford Mackinder Dominate Global Thinking" by Tristram Hunt, The Times

09-08-27 "Sri Lanka's Disconcerting COIN Strategy for Defeating the LTTE" posted by Niel Smith, Small Wars Journal