La rassegna di geopolitica di Radio Radicale
- Rassegna di geopolitica: lo status di Gerusalemme 6 August 2010
- Rassegna di Geopolitica: scontri a fuoco tra Israele e Libano 4 August 2010
- Rassegna di Geopolitica. La Birmania tra India e Cina 30 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica. Tensioni tra Usa e Cina nel Pacifico 28 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica: Le ambizioni nucleari dell'Arabia Saudita 22 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica: le nuove prospettive della Cina 9 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica - L'agricoltura globale 7 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica: la politica Usa dello Spazio 2010 emanata da Barack Obama 1 July 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica: per i Paesi Arabi il rischio di gravi crisi alimentari 9 June 2010
- Rassegna di geopolitica: le nuove Università in Asia 4 June 2010
L’ora di Cindia di Claudio Landi
- L'ora di Cindia 28 August 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 22 August 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 7 August 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 31 July 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 25 July 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 18 July 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 10 July 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 4 July 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 26 June 2010
- L'ora di Cindia 20 June 2010
Grafica
Squeezing Iran: Oil and sanctions – Bbc
Sanctions were imposed by the US after the seizure of American hostages in the aftermath of the revolution, and the 1980 Iran-Iraq war. In recent years a fresh wave of UN sanctions has attempted to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But what effect have these measures actually had on the country and its… »
Interactive Map: Leaders of Pakistan’s Militant Groups – Center for American Progress
Pakistan faces a formidable array of militant groups concentrated in the semi-governed Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA, and Northwest Frontier Province, or NWFP, along the country’s Afghan border. This map, based on a survey of available, open-source reporting, displays major leaders of different militant groups and coalitions attacking into Afghanistan and… »
Le infrastrutture energetiche e di trasporto nel Mediterraneo – ISPI
(PDF) – Le riserve di idrocarburi del Maghreb ammontano a circa 8 miliardi di tonnellate (Mt) di petrolio e a 8.500 miliardi di metri cubi (bcm) di gas naturale. Queste risorse sono concentrate prevalentemente in Algeria e in Libia, che possiedono l’88% delle riserve di petrolio (Libia 5,6 miliardi di tonnellate, Algeria 1,4 miliardi) e… »
International Migration Outlook 2010 – OECD
Multilingual summaries:
International migration has fallen during the economic crisis, but as the recovery moves into gear migrants will once again be needed to fill labour and skill shortages, according to a new OECD report. The OECD’s International Migration Outlook 2010 says that the inflow of immigrants to OECD countries fell by about 6% in 2008… »
Mexico Energy Data – EIA
In 2009, Mexico was the seventh-largest oil producer in the world, and the third-largest in the Western Hemisphere. State-owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) holds a monopoly on oil production in the country and is one of the largest oil companies in the world. However, oil production has begun to decrease, as production at the giant Cantarell… »
Syria Energy Data – EIA
Syria is the only significant crude oil producing country in the Eastern Mediterranean region, which includes Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. In 2009, Syria produced about 400,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) of crude and other petroleum liquids. Oil production has stabilized after falling for a number of years, and is poised to… »
Gulf of Mexico Fact Sheet – EIA
On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which had been drilling an exploratory well in approximately 5,000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico, 52 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana. The platform subsequently sank, with 11 crewmembers presumed dead, and the uncompleted well leaking oil…. »
The Failed States Index 2010 – Fp/Found for Peace
This year’s index draws on 90,000 publicly available sources to analyze 177 countries and rate them on 12 metrics of state decay — from refugee flows to economic implosion, human rights violations to security threats. Taken together, a country’s performance on this battery of indicators tells us how stable — or unstable — it is…. »
Black Gold from the Deep – Der Spiegel
Countries worldwide engaged in deep sea oil… »
Consolidating Private Security Companies in Southern Afghanistan – The Institute for the Study of War
(PDF) – Dozens of Private Security Companies (PSCs) operate in Kandahar city and province, frequently doubling as the militias of local powerbrokers. These armed groups also operate on a contractual basis to provide security for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and private, Afghan companies. Because PSCs are under the control of powerful individuals, rather… »
Pékin dans un «Grand Jeu» sur ses marches de l’Ouest – le Figaro
La Chine s’est lancée dans un nouveau «Grand Jeu» en Asie centrale, dont les règles sont largement dictées par les impératifs d’approvisionnements énergétiques. Très symboliquement, samedi, alors que la violence embrasait le sud du Kirghizstan, le président Hu Jintao était au Kazakhstan, pour signer avec son homologue, Noursoultan Nazarbaïev, des accords portant sur la construction… »
Geologic and Mineral Resource Map of Afghanistan – USGS
The geologic and mineral resource information shown on this map is derived from digitization of the original data from Abdullah and Chmyriov (1977) and Abdullah and others (1977). The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has made no attempt to modify original geologic map-unit boundaries and faults as presented in Abdullah and Chmyriov (1977). The classification of… »
Algeria Energy Data – EIA
Algeria’s hydrocarbons sector accounted for 60 percent of its budget revenues, nearly 30 percent of its GDP, and over 97 percent of its export earnings in 2008, according to the U.S. State Department. In 2009, Algeria produced a total of 2.13 million barrels per day (bbl/d) of oil liquids, of which 1.33 million bbl/d was… »
Global peace Index 2010
The Global Peace Index is a project of the Institute for Economics and Peace. It is the first time that an Index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identifies some of the drivers of peace. The Institute for Economics and Peace, in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence… »
El control de las rutas de exportación de petróleo y gas de Kazajistán y Turkmenistán – Real Elcano
Las exportaciones de petróleo y gas de Kazajistán y Turkmenistán con destino el mercado europeo, que son las mayoritarias, siguen dependiendo de la intermediación rusa, dado que tanto los oleoductos como los gasoductos que se dirigen al continente europeo atraviesan el territorio ruso y son total o parcialmente propiedad de sus empresas. Esa dependencia de… »
What’s driving Africa’s growth – McKinsey Quarterly
Africa’s economic pulse has quickened, infusing the continent with a new commercial vibrancy. Real GDP rose by 4.9 percent a year from 2000 through 2008, more than twice its pace in the 1980s and ’90s. Telecommunications, banking, and retailing are flourishing. Construction is booming. Private-investment inflows are surging. Africa’s collective GDP, at $1.6 trillion in… »
International Energy Outlook 2010 – EIA
The global economic recession that began in 2007 and continued into 2009 has had a profound impact on world energy demand in the near term. Total world marketed energy consumption contracted by 1.2 percent in 2008 and by an estimated 2.2 percent in 2009, as manufacturing and consumer demand for goods and services declined. Although… »
Oil Pipelines and Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico – Perry-Castañeda Library
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Oil Pipelines, Oil Platforms. Aggregating data from the State of Louisiana, US Department of the Interior Mineral Management Service, and ESRI Basemaps – by Matthew… »
Egypt Energy Data – EIA
Hydrocarbons play a sizeable role in Egypt’s economy both from oil and natural gas production and also in terms of revenues from the Suez Canal, an important transit point for oil shipments out of the Persian Gulf. Total oil production, however, has declined since the country’s 1996 peak. Decreases in oil production have been offset… »
Another drop in nuclear generation – WNN
Annual generation of nuclear power has continued on a slight downward trend, decreasing 1.8% last year to 2558 TWh, according to the latest… »
Fungus hits Afghan opium poppies – Bbc
A serious disease is affecting opium poppies in Afghanistan, Antonio Maria Costa, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said. Mr Costa told BBC that this year’s opium production could be reduced by a quarter, compared with last… »
Kuwait Energy Data – EIA
Kuwait is one of the world’s top exporters of oil, with about 2.4 million barrels per day exported in 2008. Kuwait’s economy is heavily dependent on oil export revenues which account for roughly 90 percent of total export earnings. Kuwait channels around 10 percent of its oil revenues into the “Future Generations Fund” for the… »
Redrawing the map – the Economist
The European map is outdated and illogical. Here’s how it should… »
Freedom of the Press 2010 – Freedom House
Global press freedom declined in 2009, with setbacks registered in nearly every region of the world. This marked the eighth straight year of overall deterioration, and produced a global landscape in which only one in six people live in countries with a Free press. The year was notable for intensified efforts by authoritarian regimes to… »
Oil spill growing in the Gulf – USA Today
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded April 20 while preparing a well for oil extraction and sank 2 days later. The wellhead on the ocean floor has been gushing oil at about 210,000 gallons a day since the rig… »
2010 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion – AJC
The data reported here are taken from the 2010 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion, sponsored by AJC. Among the topics covered in this survey are U.S.-Israeli relations, the Arab-Israel conflict, and the Iranian nuclear… »
Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Levant Basin Province, Eastern Mediterranean – USGS
(PDF) – As part of a program aimed at estimating the recoverable oil and gas resources of priority basins around the world, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated the undiscovered oil and
gas resources of the Levant Basin Province. According to the report, in a region of which Israel and its economic zone form a considerable… »
China’s Space Program – SinoDefence.com
Since sending its first manmade satellite into the space in 1970, China has made tremendous progress in its space programme. By 23 December 2008, it had conducted 115 launches, of which 103 were completely successful and four were partially successful. In 2003, the PRC successfully launched its first manned spacecraft ShenZhou 5, thus making it… »
Israele senza Palestina – Limes
Dai ‘due stati due popoli’ allo status quo permanente. Storia di un grande… »
Land Use Futures – Foresight
This Project has taken a broad and overarching look at the future of UK land use over the next 50 years. It demonstrates that there is a strong case to develop a much more strategic approach: to guide incremental land use change, incentivise sustainable behaviours, and to unlock value from land.This report shows that a… »
Afghanistan Troop numbers and contributions – ISAF
The NATO-ISAF Placemat sets out the approximate numbers of forces provided to ISAF by Allied and other contributing nations, the location and lead of Provincial Reconstruction Teams, and the countries responsible for ISAF Regional Commands. Since February 2009, the Placemat shows the approximate size and location of the Afghan National Army. Since June 2009, the… »
Arab Media Outlook 2009/2013 – Dubai Press Club & Value Partners
(PDF) – The third edition of the Arab Media Outlook aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of the Arab media industry, including projections for the industry from 2009 to 2013. We have built upon the foundations of the previous two reports, which covered twelve key markets in the Arab world (Bahrain, Egypt,… »
Jerusalem: The Cost of Failure – Chatham House
(PDF) – Despite the lack of progress in negotiations over the future of Jerusalem, the situation on the ground is not static. Dynamic developments are creating grave new realities which risk becoming irreversible. The settler-driven entrenchment of the Israeli government in East Jerusalem
is reaching the point at which a peaceful division of the city between… »
Afghanistan : le choc des empires – le Monde Diplomatique
Cartographie – mars… »
The Year of the Drone – the New America Foundation
An Analysis of U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan,… »
A Nation on the Brink – the Atlantic
It’s not just Al-Qaeda. Water shortages, collapsing oil supplies, war, refugees, pirates, poverty—Why Yemen is… »
China Promotes Its Transcontinental Ambitions with Massive Rail Plan – the Transport Politic
China intends to extend its high-speed rail system towards south Asia and Europe with the goal of two-day journey times between London and… »
OPEC Oil Export Revenues – EIA
Based on projections from the EIA March 2010 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $767 billion of net oil export revenues in 2010 and $823 billion in 2011. Last year, OPEC earned $573 billion in net oil export revenues, a 41 percent decrease from 2008…. »
South Africa Energy Data – EIA
South Africa’s energy sector is critical to the economy as the country relies heavily on its large-scale, energy-intensive mining industry. South Africa has only small deposits of oil and natural gas and uses its large coal deposits for most of its energy needs. As a result, carbon emission and intensity levels for South Africa are… »
Yemen Energy Data – EIA
Yemen’s location on the Bab al Mandab, one of the world’s most strategic shipping lanes through which an estimated 3.7 million barrels of oil pass daily, makes Yemen important to the global oil trade. Disruption to shipping in the Bab el-Mandab could prevent tankers in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Aden from reaching… »
Russian Analytical Digest No. 73: Russia-China Relations
(PDF) – in this issue:
*Russian-Chinese Relations: Current Trends and Future Prospects
*Sino-Russian Relations 2009 to 2010: A Perspective from China
*Sino-Russian Energy Relations: True Friendship or Phony Partnership?
*Statistics: Foreign Trade Relations
*Opinion Po ll: Mutual Perceptions
*Map: Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean… »
Venezuela Energy Data – EIA
Venezuela is one of the world’s largest exporters of crude oil and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. In 2008, the country was the eighth-largest net oil exporter in the world. The oil sector is of central importance to the Venezuelan economy: it accounts for more than three-quarters of total Venezuelan export revenues, about half… »
The Geopolitics of Iranian Connectivity – Renesys
As Iran celebrates the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, it seems like an opportune time to look in on the evolving state of their Internet connectivity. When we last looked, after the disputed elections in June 2009, the picture was one of uneasy stability: logically diverse but physically constrained transit via the United Arab… »
Citizens of European countries account for the majority of the foreign population in EU-27 in 2008 – EUROSTAT
(PDF) – The population of the European Union (EU) has increased significantly in recent years. This
trend is mainly due to a relatively high net migration rate, which in 2008 was almost three
times higher than the rate of natural population growth. Migration plays a significant role in
population dynamics of European societies, so quantifying the non-national population
residing… »
How the US Must Expand and Redefine International Cooperation in Fighting Terrorism – CSIS
(PDF) – The latest State Department report on terrorism contains a report by the Counterterrorism Center that ranks the countries that have been the subject of the most serious attacks. The US and Western Europe at not even on the chart. It is nations with large Muslim populations that face the vast majority of the… »
Getting to the Territorial Endgame of an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Settlement – Baker Institute
The very size of the Occupied Territories is a disputed issue between Israel and the Palestinians. According to the official Palestinian calculation, the total area of the Occupied Territories is 6,207 square kilometers (sq km), which includes the Gaza Strip (367 sq km), the whole of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the No… »
Mortalidad por homicidios en México – ICESI
(PDF) – Las dos principales fuentes oficiales que generan datos sobre homicidios provienen de los sectores de procuración de justicia y salud, que suelen presentar diferencias notables que impiden tener un diagnóstico preciso. No obstante y a pesar de metodologías y criterios distintos para la clasificación de los homicidios, es de fundamental importancia analizar ambas…. »
Crisis management: Global deployment of uniformed personnel – Strategic Trends
MAP – Crisis management: Global deployment of uniformed personnel
(uniformed personnel incudes troops, military observers and… »
2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 163 countries on 25 performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories covering both environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. These indicators provide a gauge at a national government scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals. The EPI’s proximity-to-target methodology facilitates cross-country comparisons as well as… »
Global Risk Report 2010 – World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum released Global Risks 2010, highlighting a number of underlying risks that contributed to and were exacerbated by the financial crisis and global economic downturn
• Fiscal crises and unemployment, underinvestment in infrastructure – especially in energy and agriculture – and chronic disease are identified as the pivotal areas of risk over… »