September 8th 2006
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Introduction on the Gulf of Mexico Discovery:
Via WindsofChange, in "Treasure in the Waters", Publius Pundit covers the story regarding Devon and Chveron’s recent energy discovery in the Gulf of Mexico:
Treasure was discovered in America’s Gulf of Mexico waters today, black gold so vast and so deep and so surprising and ...
Quick Post: Towards a Broader view of Energy Security?
Sebastian Mallaby of the Washington Post does an excellent job in “What ‘Energy Security’ Really Means” on broadening the general public’s view of energy security. Read on.
What everyone thinks about energy security:
“For many American leaders, energy security means producing energy at home ...
Introduction - Lugar, IEA and Energy Cooperation
The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting article, “Bold idea for energy woes: global cooperation“, weighing in on the need for some sort of global cooperation among major importers in terms of energy security and alternative fuel development.
The article touches on a speech ...
Quick Post: Update on “Getting India Right : Recreating the Anglosphere”
The Economist Writes on US-India relations
The StrategyUnit has recently posted several articles relating to India, with the strongest being “Getting India Right : Recreating the Anglosphere“, where it is declared:
“There has been discussion that just as Great Britain gracefully passed ...
SummaryMany commentators have discussed the possibility of the Six-Party Talks on North Korea - which consist of China, Japan, US, Russia and the two Koreas - as the future basis for a security forum for Northeast Asia. East Asia is an important and dynamic region with growing economies and equally ...
Commentary
Back in January, StrategyUnit posted the article “Iran Crisis: Another War for Oil, Bourse and the US Dollar?” on the scheduled March opening of Iranian oil exchange (bourse), which is based on euros rather than US dollars:
This has fueled (no pun intended) speculation of the real cause of the Iranian ...
Today’s Quick Links
1. Hamas: Winning the Candidates, not Votes?
Via Chief Wiggum and Coming Anarchy, comes this interesting story:
A close look at the final results of last month’s Palestinian election shows that the apparent landslide that gave Hamas 74 of the 132 seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council and only 45 ...
Introduction: Chinese and Indian Energy Cooperation
India and China kicked off their “Year of Friendship” to a rather good start. Only a few days ago (Jan 9), China and India’s respective state-owned oil companies agreed on a joint venture on the purchase and development on oil assets in Syria. And ...
Weekend Reading: Thomas Friedman on Energy Gluttony and Security in the Middle East and Beyond
In Yesterday’s New York Times, columnist and author Tom Friedman writes calls for a mature U.S. energy policy as central to the US and global security. Unfortunately, the piece is behind New York Time’s firewall, ...
Complimentaring StrategyUnit’s post on the Russia-Ukraine Gas sega, StratFor’s Peter Zeihan has an interesting perspective on the possible role and orientation of Dimitri Mendevev, Putin’s newly selected Prime Minister, and his in the Ukraine-Russian Gas issue.
StratFor’s article is interesting because it takes account to the role of Mendevev, whereas Jamestown ...
