Turkmenistan’s Relations With Russia
By Richard PomfretTurkmenistan has abundant supplies of natural gas, possessing the largest reserves in the former Soviet Union with the exception of Russia. As a result, Turkmenistan plays an important role in CIS gas supplies and issues surrounding gas dominate Turkmen-Russian relations. Turkm...
Read MoreSpain’s Immigration And Foreign Policy: Economic Crisis And Challenges
By Laura Tedesco for FRIDEThe PSOE government has adopted one of the most progressive immigration policies of all EU member states, and this has had a positive impact on its foreign policy. However, since the financial crisis, the integration of immigrants in Spain has rapidly decreased. Before,...
Read MoreUncertain Respite – South Asia Intelligence Review
By Ajai Sahni for SATPhe good news first. Under a new leadership, a moribund Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been galvanized into unprecedented action by the shock of the November 26, 2008, Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorist outrage in Mumbai. According to the South Asia Terrorism Porta...
Read MoreSingapore’s Approach To Counterterrorism
By Gavin Chua Hearn YuitSingapore represents a bastion of general stability amid low intensity conflicts in Southeast Asia. It has not suffered a terrorist attack on its soil in almost two decades. Nevertheless, Singapore’s counterterrorism community believes that the country could face a terror...
Read MoreEurope And North Africa: The End Of The Euro-Med Vision
By Kristina Kausch and Richard Youngs for FRIDEThe Union for the Mediterranean does not represent a rebirth but rather the further atrophy of the vision that infused the inception of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) in 1995. Spain promises to revitalize Euro-Mediterranean relations dur...
Read MoreSpain’s Diminished Policy In The Mediterranean
By Kristina Kausch for FRIDESpain has been losing influence in the Mediterranean. Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-shaping of the EU–Mediterranean policy framework according to French preferences in a revamped Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) poured water on an already dampened Spanish spirit.While the...
Read MoreProtesters Gunned Down In Southern Afghanistan
Several people were shot dead and more than a dozen injured on Tuesday during an anti-NATO demonstration in Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand province, local media said.Hundreds of Afghans took part in the demonstration, which had to be dispersed by police and the military. They were protesting aga...
Read MoreChhattisgarh: Strategies of Failure – South Asia Intelligence Review
By Ajit Kumar SinghOn January 2, 2010, the Chhattisgarh Police announced a ‘new’ strategy to combat the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) menace by packing small areas with adequate Security Force (SF) personnel to force the Maoists to flee and develop it later. The State Director Gen...
Read MoreJharkhand A Deepening Dark – South Asia Intelligence Review
Ajit Kumar SinghThere is little prospect of relief for Jharkhand, as both the Maoist insurgency and the political free fall in the State deepen. The elections of November-December 2009 have yielded an unstable coalition of opportunity, led by a party that commands just 18 seats in an 81 member S...
Read MoreCaspian Sea Energy Geopolitics – Litmus Test For U.S., Russia, China Control Of Eurasia
Dr. Thrassy N. MarketosThe considerable oil and gas resources in the Caspian region, primarily in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, constitute the most accessible alternative energy supplies for Europe. Especially in terms of gas, Russian resources are unlikely to fill future Europea...
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