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Posted on August 10, 2008 by MichaelW

How much of the Georgia/South Ossetia/Russian conflict can be laid at the hands of a corrupt cabal of former soviet ministers bent on lining their own pockets? Perhaps a great deal. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has handed his Russian counterpart, … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, MichaelW's Page | Tagged Anatoly Baranov, atlas, banditry, Caucasuses, defense, Dmitri Medvedev, Eduord Kokoity, energy, ethnic nationalism, Federal Security Service, gas pipelines, Georgia, Joshua Foust, KGB, Kokoity, Mikhail Mindzayev, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mordovia, Moscow, North Ossetia, Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinians, PLO, pro-Russian, refugee camps, Russia, security council, separatism, siloviki, South Ossetia, Tbilisi, Tskhinvali, United Nations, Yulia Latynina, Yuri Morozov | 6 Comments

Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Lee

Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie) John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Interviews, Lee's Page | Tagged Africa, Alberta, Angola, Arctic, Beijing, Bonga, business, Cabinda, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chevron, cocoa, Cold War, Congo, Domestic Politics, Dutch disease, economy, energy, Environment, ethnic nationalism, Financial Times, FPSO, Gabon, Geneva, geostrategy, ghana, guerrilla warfare, Gulf of Guinea, Houston, IMF, interview, John Ghazvinian, Joseph Kia Mboungou, kidnapping, left, memo, mercantile, Middle East, neoconservative, Niger Delta, Nigeria, offshore, oil, oil sands, oilfield trash, peak oil, petroleum engineers, post-nationalism, prostitution, reinvestment, rentier, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, shale, Shell, subculture, Suez Canal, Transportation, Uganda, UK, United Nations, Washington, workers, World Bank, Zimbabwe | 9 Comments

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