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New Atlanticist

Sep 28, 2012

Energy Resources in the Eastern Mediterranean: Promise and Peril

By David Koranyi and Adnan Vatansever

A year ago, a tempest was looming in the Eastern Mediterranean. A Turkish exploration vessel named Piri Reis accompanied by warships and jets approached a contested area of newly discovered natural gas fields around Cyprus. Direct confrontation was eventually avoided, thanks in no small part to US and European calls for restraint. Nevertheless, the incident […]

Energy & Environment

NATOSource

Sep 20, 2012

Russia and Kyrgyzstan Sign Base, Debt, and Power Deals

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Russia and Kyrgyzstan signed a series of deals on Thursday including an agreement on maintaining Russian military bases in the Central Asian state, following a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 15-year base agreement, signed by the two nations’ leaders, will come into effect in 2017 with a possible five-year extension. […]

Energy & Environment
Chinese oil rig in South China Sea

New Atlanticist

Sep 19, 2012

Deep-Water Oil Rigs as Strategic Weapons

By Martin N. Murphy

This, at least, is how Wang Yilin, Chairman of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), chooses to view them. He reportedly told an audience at CNOOC’s headquarters in Beijing in May that ‘large-scale deep-water rigs are our mobile national territory and a strategic weapon’.

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Energy & Environment

Event Recap

Sep 14, 2012

Fourth Annual Members’ Conference – How Does Energy Impact International Security?

By Jason Harmala

Summary of the master class “How Does Energy Impact International Security?” at the 2012 Annual Members’ Conference. Gen. James L. Jones, Jr., USMC (Ret.),** former National Security Advisor Moderated by Mr. Ian Brzezinski, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Atlantic Council

Energy & Environment
Energy Markets & Governance

Event Recap

Sep 7, 2012

India and the Economics of Coal

By Jason Harmala

On September 7, the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center held a public discussion titled “India and the Economics of Coal” with Bruce Buckheit, Charles K. Ebinger, and via video-teleconference from India, Krishna Kumar Sharma.

Energy & Environment
India

NATOSource

Sep 6, 2012

Turkmen navy holds war games in gas-rich Caspian

By Marat Gurt, Reuters

From Marat Gurt, Reuters:  Neutral Turkmenistan flexed its military muscle on Wednesday, holding its first naval exercises in the Caspian Sea to show it can rebuff any attack on the oil and gas riches it hopes to sell to Europe.

Energy & Environment

New Atlanticist

Sep 4, 2012

An Emerging Transatlantic Rift on Energy?

By David Koranyi

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently unveiled his energy plans for the United States, which promises to fulfill the country’s four-decades’-old dream of energy independence. It has the potential to do so. But the price could ultimately be high: a breakdown in global climate negotiations and a rift in relations with Europe.

Energy & Environment
Energy Markets & Governance

NATOSource

Aug 22, 2012

Russia’s spy services identified as ‘the most active espionage organizations’ in the Czech Republic

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Russian “special services” are the most active foreign espionage organizations in the Czech Republic, the Czech Security Information Service (BIS) said on Wednesday.

Energy & Environment

NATOSource

Aug 6, 2012

Russia to set up naval infrastructure in Arctic – Patrushev

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  Russia will create several infrastructure hubs along the Northern Sea Route in the Arctic to be used as temporary stations for Russian warships and border guard vessels, Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev said on Monday.

Energy & Environment
United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jul 30, 2012

The Strategic Consequences Of The Euro-Crisis: Cracks In NATO, New Euro Map

By Harald Malmgren and Robbin Laird, AOL Defense

From Harald Malmgren and Robbin Laird, AOL Defense:  Europe is essentially on its own in a fundamental sense as the key nations of Europe seek to sort through the disaggregation of the Euro zone, and the shaping of a new political and economic map of Europe.

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