Octavia MOISE Scopul acestui articol este de a face o scurtă analiză a securității energetice în Golful Persic, luându-se în considerare mediul de securitate în secolul XXI. Ne confruntăm cu o interdependență a legăturilor comerciale, politice și geopolitice, precum și o serie de modificări … [Read more...]
Are Persian Gulf Clouds Spreading into the Mediterranean Sea?
Robert Radu HERVIAN Few aspects of the American international policies are more important and more misunderstood than the country’s policies and attitudes towards the Persian Gulf Area. In February, 1945 the “USS Murphy” arrived in Jeddah. Their mission: to ferry into Egypt the King of Saudi … [Read more...]
Oil Flows through the Persian Gulf in the Context of International Crisis Act
Marinela CARASTOIAN The material below presents the situation created by conflict between US and Iran on Persian Gulf, oil flows in the current political and economic crisis. The gulf is linked by the Strait Hormuz and Oman Gulf. In the north-west, gulf flows Shatt al-Arab river forming the … [Read more...]
Terapia de șoc sau leninismul răsturnat al lui Sachs
Nina GEORGESCU În anii 1989-1991 socialismul din Europa de Est, inclusiv din URSS, a primit o grea lovitură subterană, care nu a fost înţeleasă de o mare parte a populaţiei ţărilor din Est şi nici din Vest deoarece această lovitură era prezentată sub conceptul de Revoluţie, iar acest concept are … [Read more...]
Câmpul gazeifer de la Absheron, influenţe pe scena energetică internaţională
Adriana UNGUREANU Anunțul total în luna septembrie al unei descoperiri majore de gaze naturale în blocul off-shore Absheron din Azerbaidjan a subliniat importanța regiunii Mării Caspice pe piețele mondiale de hidrocarburi. Cu toate acestea, o serie de obstacole rămân în calea proiectelor de … [Read more...]
The Changing Geopolitics of Energy
Zeljko BJELJAC The paper discusses the changes in the global energy balance and the resulting geopolitics, which have in the recent years emerged as a result of the interplay of factors such as the rapidly increasing world’s energy consumption and the shift of the source of consumption eastwards to … [Read more...]
The BRICS and the Construction of the Multipolar System
Tiberio GRAZIANI Ten years ago, the acronym BRIC entered the lexicon of international economics and finance. Since then, cooperation among the emerging countries contained in that acronym has taken on an increasingly marked geo-economic and geopolitical record. The consolidation of relations among … [Read more...]
Regionalization in Asia and Asia Pacific: a New Turn
Maria PTASHKINA “Asia's development is not only changing the destiny of the Asian people, but also exerting a growing impact on the development of the world.” Hu Jintao In the modern world there is a clear evidence of increasing cooperation at both global and regional levels. Asia’s … [Read more...]
China’s Mythical Hard Landing
Daniel WAGNER Many western economic pundits continue to believe that China will experience a hard landing in the near term, even though its economic history over the past 20 years has demonstrated that in spite of global and national economic turmoil, China has always landed on its feet. Although … [Read more...]
The Paris – Berlin – Moscow Axis Back Again
http://iwallerstein.com/parisberlinmoscow-axis/ Commentary No. 317, Nov. 15, 2011 It always amazes me how the world’s politicians and media spend most of their energy debating geopolitical prospects that are not going to happen, while ignoring major developments that are happening. Here is a … [Read more...]