... self-protection.”
That was US President Harry Truman on April 4, 1949, at the signing of the Washington Declaration creating NATO. It is an effective metaphor, and a convincing one. But it can also be turned around.
In a recent Fox News interview about Greenland, US Permanent Representative to the UN Michael Waltz remarked:
“Denmark just doesn’t have the resources or capacity to do what needs to be done in the northern region. And to the Democrats who say ‘they’re giving you full access,’ ...
... emergence of a huge island state in North America would be a delightful experiment in the field of practical geopolitics. It provides serious grounds for thinking about the practical consequences of such changes for Russia and Eurasia.
In fact, the idea of Greenland, Canada and another region nearby joining the USA does not seem so bad or illogical. First, because it reflects, in general, one of the principal geopolitical ideas of our time. Its essence is that formal statehood is not sufficient to have the right to it. The second half of the 20
th
century was ...
Policy brief #8/2016
The decline in global oil prices that began in the summer of 2014 carries with it a number of risks in assembling a whole range of major oil and gas projects, including shale gas extraction projects, deep-water offshore projects and projects in the Arctic shelf.
In these conditions, despite the ongoing surplus of global oil production in relation to consumption, the question nevertheless arises: how can we maintain current production levels in the medium and long-term and ensure...
