Posts Tagged ‘conflict’

Armenia-Azerbaijan Tensions: Not To Be Overlooked

Never underestimate the importance of obscure places. Few people outside international politics circles, Caucasus-focused oil companies, academia, and the people of the region themselves had heard of South Ossetia or Abkhazia when Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 to aid their secession. Similarly, Kosovo was a highly obscure flashpoint until the late 1990s, when conflict there… [Read more]

Afghanistan’s Minerals: A Thousand Splendid Billion

One of the news stories drawing my attention today is a report in the New York Times suggesting that Afghanistan has almost US$1 trillion worth of mineral deposits. The article, citing US geologists, lists iron, copper, cobalt, gold, and lithium as existing in vast quantities in the country’s soil. Lithium in particular has been highlighted,… [Read more]


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