Posted in European Union, Gal Luft, Geopolitics, Iran, Oil and Gas, Pakistan, Turkey on Sep 23rd, 2009 Comments Off on How to beat Iran’s pipeline strategy
From Gal Luft While Washington is mulling over what to do next in order to weaken Iran economically, this summer the Islamic Republic has taught us a lesson in strategic maneuvering, taking major steps to bolster its economy and geopolitical posture by positioning itself as an indispensable energy supplier to hundreds of millions of people.
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Posted in Gal Luft, Geopolitics, India, Iran, Oil and Gas, Pakistan on May 29th, 2009 Comments Off on Iran-Pakistan pipeline: Iran’s new lifeline
From Gal Luft While the world’s eyes are focused on Iran and Pakistan, little attention has been paid to the two countries’ decision from last week to move ahead with their plans to connect their economies via a natural gas pipeline. What may seem like a standard energy project could have profound implications for the […]
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Posted in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Walter Laqueur on Apr 17th, 2009 Comments Off on After the charm offensive, what next?
From Walter Laqueur President Obama in his charm offensive in Europe and Turkey said all the right things—about a new peaceful world order, about a world without nuclear weapons, about Turkey’s greatness, about America’s responsibility to take a lead solving the global financial crisis because it began in the United States, about America not being […]
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From Martin Kramer The appointment of Dennis Ross as “Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for The Gulf and Southwest Asia” (announcement here) has caused some puzzlement, in part because the geographic focus of his title seems fuzzy. This is especially so for “Southwest Asia.”
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Posted in Afghanistan, Geopolitics, Maps, Pakistan on Jul 7th, 2008 Comments Off on Border wars: Pakistan and Afghanistan
From MESH Admin The online journal Heartland: Eurasian Review of Geopolitics devotes its latest issue to “The Pakistani Boomerang,” and provides this map of the situation on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, as prepared by Limes, an Italian review of geopolitics. The map shows the tribal areas, sites of clashes between Pakistani forces and jihadists, and cross-border […]
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Posted in Daniel Byman, Hezbollah, Iran, Nuclear, Pakistan, Qaeda on Mar 31st, 2008 Comments Off on Nuclear transfers: comparing Iran and Pakistan
From Daniel Byman U.S. and world attention is focused understandably on the Iranian nuclear program. The list of reasons to worry about an Iranian bomb is exceptionally long and, for the most part, legitimate.
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Posted in Afghanistan, Martin Kramer, Pakistan, Qaeda, Terrorism on Dec 30th, 2007 Comments Off on Bhutto’s murder: prelude to…
From Martin Kramer An editorial in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, entitled “Target: Pakistan,” mourned Benazir Bhutto, whom it described as “the highest profile scalp the jihadists can claim since their assassination of Egypt’s Anwar Sadat in 1981.” The editorial then offered this analysis: With the jihadists losing in Iraq and having a hard […]
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