Rem Korteweg -On March 12, Russia’s Stroytransgaz Group (SG) announced that it would be constructing a gas pipeline in the Republic of Macedonia. The company says the pipeline “will become part of a new gas pipeline system.” The pipeline could bring Russian gas to Southeastern and Central Europe, potentially strengthening Moscow’sContinue Reading
Ariel Cohen-Europe’s dependency on Russian gas, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, has become a major strategic liability for the West. This is especially true as the war in Eastern Ukraine has brought relations between Moscow and Brussels as well as many of the European capitals to new lows. RussiaContinue Reading
Carlos Pascual-Energy and geopolitics have always been closely linked. The twentieth century saw access to energy resources become a major factor in determining the winners of wars, oil producers banding together to create new global alliances, and price swings that spurred or deterred the adventurism of superpowers. The vast andContinue Reading
Gjovalin Shkurtaj-In her recent book, “The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq” (PublicAffairs 2015) Emma Sky, former political adviser to General Ray Odierno the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, quotes Vice President Joe Biden about the Obama administration’s intentions to withdraw from the region. According to Sky,Continue Reading
Geopolitical Monographs:Center for Security Studies and Developemnt-Macedonia (CSSD) World is changing, although Europe especially Northern Europe becomes a part of geopolitics.The Swedish Great Power period in the 17th century was made possible because of both internal and external causes. In the middle of the 16th century, when the German OrderContinue Reading
Simon Sebag Montefiore-Moscow lacks the resources to replace America and will find in Syria a quagmire, but Russians feel that a great imperial Russia has always been a player in the Middle East — and boldness counts for much in this wild world. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/opinion/putins-imperial-adventure-in-syria.html?ref=opinion&_r=0Continue Reading
General characteristics- The Western Balkan route describes two main migratory flows: from the Western Balkan countries themselves, and the secondary movements of mainly Asian migrants who originally entered the European Union through the Bulgarian-Turkish or Greek-Turkish land or sea borders and then proceed, through the Western Balkans, into Hungary. ThisContinue Reading
The foreign ministers of Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary and Greece are expected to sign a memorandum on the construction of the Tesla pipeline, which should connect the Turkish Stream pipeline with Austria. The document is scheduled to be signed in September, Russian newspaper Vedomosti reports. The pipeline, which is a continuationContinue Reading
BUREAU OF COUNTERTERRORISM Country Reports on Terrorism 2014 Report EUROPE While Europe continued to face terrorist threats from a variety of sources in 2014, a primary area of concern in many countries was the emergence of the threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters participating in the conflict in Syria andContinue Reading
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