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Greece and the BRICS Bank, a Forgotten Scenario?

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:31:43 +0000

The decision by Prime Minister Tsipras (e.g. The Guardian) on 26 June 2015 to consult Greek citizens in a referendum on their wish to accept or not the never-ending austerity measures demanded as part of the current bailout was obviously an unexpected move for Greece’s creditors. From the Greek government’s point of view, it was, however, a logical one considering …

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Israel, Natural Gas and Power in the Middle East

Dr Jean-Michel Valantin (PhD Paris) — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:32:42 +0000

Benyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime minister is known to joke about the fact that Moses led his people during forty years in the desert to the only place in the Middle East without oil (Marin Katusa, The Colder War, 2014). And, indeed, for the first sixty years of its existence, the lack of energy resources has been a major difficulty for Israel. However, a profound change seems to be underway, since two giant off-shore natural gas deposits have been discovered in the Israeli exclusive economic zone in 2011. The Tamar and the Leviathan fields hold respectively 10 and between 19 and 22 trillion cubic feet of gas of estimated reserves, which could ensure decades of domestic consumption as well as …

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The Red (Team) Analysis Weekly 189 – Why an anti-Russian “Western” Foreign Policy?

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:18:07 +0000

Each week our scan collects weak – and less weak – signals… We present below some of the most interesting or relevant features for each section. World (all matters related to war, international and national security) – With the return of war to Eastern Ukraine, we are witnessing an interesting effort by some authors to try to make sense of a US-led foreign policy and analysis of the world that does not appear to make sense to them, besides, of course, the host of usual anti-Russian articles. The articles in The American Interest (“Putin’s World: In It To Win It” by Walter Russell Mead) and Salon (“Distortions, lies and omissions: The New York Times won’t tell you the real story behind Ukraine, Russian economic collapse” by Patrick …

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The Red (Team) Analysis Weekly No140 – A new strategic configuration in the Far East and globally?

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:48:06 +0000

Editorial – Towards a new strategic configuration in the Far East and globally? Japan, China, the U.S. and Russia – As so many are focusing on the last round of global protests, now in Ukraine, in Venezuela, and in Thailand (although the situation there is much less emphasized in crowdsourced news), or on the seemingly …

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The Red (Team) Analysis Weekly – 12 December 2013 – Russia, the Arctic and … Syrian uncertainties

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:36:27 +0000

Editorial – Russia, the Arctic and … Syrian uncertainties – If you were looking for a new tense area to monitor, here it is: the Arctic. We had known it was coming for a few years, but now it is definitely on the agenda, besides, mainly, the Middle East, North East Asia and a struggle for …

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The Red (Team) Analysis Weekly No129, 5 December 2013

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:04:10 +0000

Editorial – A window of opportunity to regain some legitimacy? What do Hansen’s new study on the inanity of the current goals of the international community to mitigate climate change and the Council of Europe report regarding the terrible impact of austerity measures on European citizens have in common? The answer is legitimacy, or rather …

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The Red (team) Analysis Weekly No123, 24 October 2013

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:52:26 +0000

Japan, an exemplary case for a complex world? The situation of Japan can be seen as a perfect case that exemplifies the complex dynamics into which we are taken. Absence of foresight and warning as well as refusal to consider the reality of environmental risk – and to act accordingly – plays a large part …

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The Red (team) Analysis Weekly No121, 10 October 2013

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:21:38 +0000

This week among the major clusters of signals that emerge, we have those about Turkey, its geopolitics and growing Islamism, then the chronicles of an environmental catastrophe in the making, including resources depletion, with the rising importance of a “Gold Rush to Space” as one counterweight. In this framework, if we look at another – …

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The Red (Team) Analysis Weekly No120, 3 October 2013

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:08:24 +0000

Besides other issues, the agreement between the U.S. and Japan to modernize their security cooperation, implying among others a larger role for Japan, is most likely to have ripple effects, notably considering the tense situation with China and unhealed regional wounds stemming from World War II. Energy security then is very much to the fore, …

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The Red (team) Analysis Weekly No119, 26 September 2013

Dr Helene Lavoix (MSc PhD Lond) — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:19:46 +0000

Horizon Scanning for National Security – Batman’s Gotham City with an international twist? The world is being profoundly reshaped: China’s global land grab, the battle for the Arctic and the importance of extreme environments for resources, a fast changing unsettled Middle-East, the importance of Central Asia, the return of a pre-World War I type of capitalist world, …

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