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Successful launch of the South Stream pipeline Kremlin’s geopolitical

Putin inaugurates Pharaonic site of South Stream RL, December 7, 2012 Near Anapa on the Black Sea, the Russian president attended yesterday's official launch ceremony of the new site giant Gazprom pipeline South Stream, which will link Russia and Europe. South Stream is the main competitor of Nabucco project supported by Brussels to reduce dependence on Russian gas. Need to build South Stream was raised for the first time in 2005. North Stream pipeline also recently put into operation, the project was a response to numerous gas war with Ukraine, which has a monopoly on transit Russian gas to Europe. Memorandum on the construction of the new pipeline was signed [...]

By CASS|2017-11-14T21:28:56+02:00December 7th, 2012|Europa/Rusia|0 Comments

Missing in Africa

How Obama Failed to Engage an Increasingly Important Continent Todd Moss, October 1, 2012 A Madiba mosaic portrait of president Obama. (tsevis / flickr) Africa is more important than ever to the United States. The continent, home to six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies, is booming. And democracy has become the African norm rather than the exception. This year alone, no fewer than fifteen sub-Saharan countries will hold elections. With their combination of liberal politics and market economics, countries such as Ghana and Botswana are attracting frontier investors. Huge potential markets like Nigeria and Ethiopia are leveraging modest reforms into big economic opportunities. These trends all suggest that Africa is [...]

By Alexandru Grumaz|2017-11-14T21:28:56+02:00November 5th, 2012|Africa., Regions|Comments Off

Assessing China’s Strategy

By George Friedman Simply put, China has three core strategic interests. Paramount among them is the maintenance of domestic security. Historically, when China involves itself in global trade, as it did in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the coastal region prospers, while the interior of China -- which begins about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the coast and runs about 1,600 kilometers to the west -- languishes. Roughly two-thirds of all Chinese citizens currently have household incomes lower than the average household income in Bolivia. Most of China's poor are located west of the richer coastal region. This disparity of wealth time and again has exposed tensions between the [...]

By CASS|2017-11-14T21:28:56+02:00November 5th, 2012|Asia, Regions|0 Comments

America’s PAcific Logic

GEOPOLITICS WITH ROBERT D.KAPLAN STRATFOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE, April 4, 2012 | The Obama administration "pivot" to the Pacific, formally announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last November and reiterated more recently by the president himself, might appear like a reassertion of America's imperial tendencies just at the time when Washington should be concentrating on the domestic economy. But in fact, the pivot was almost inevitable. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, signaling communism's defeat in Europe, security experts talked about a shift in diplomatic and military energies to the Pacific. But Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 led to a decadelong preoccupation with the Middle East, with [...]

By CASS|2017-11-14T21:28:56+02:00November 5th, 2012|America, Europa/Rusia, International Studies, Oceania & Polar Regions, Orientul Mijlociu|Comments Off

The strongest army in the world

Laser weapons capable of destroying small ships to shoot down drones or soldiers from the U.S. Army will equip the next two years, according to Admiral Matthew Klunder, according Capital.ro Admiral Matthew Klunder is the Office of Naval Research leading performing and promoting science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy. He recently said in an interview that the U.S. Navy is working with several companies in the defense industry to test lasers capable of destroying both ships and aircraft. The U.S. Navy used a laser weapon to shoot down a drone in a test conducted in the Pacific Ocean in 2010. The test was a success, but to the [...]

By CASS|2013-02-20T04:34:19+02:00October 26th, 2012|America, Regions|0 Comments