Afghanistan After The United States And NATO Leave: Economic Boomtown, Or A Disaster Waiting To Happen?
May 26th, 2013
Via the International Business Times, a look at Afghanistan’s economic future: In the armored splendor of the Serena Hotel — all sparkling cream-colored marble, ornate dark woods and vibrant Afghan carpets, behind three layers of security and imposing blast walls — the new Kabuli elite mingle relentlessly. Businessmen clad in Western-style suits, and a few […]
Read more »The Next Oil Boom: Kurdistan
May 24th, 2013
Courtesy of Fortune (subscription required), an interesting article on Kurdistan: A Kurdish government soldier patrols near an oil refinery outside the city of Kirkuk, which is in a heavily disputed area. If you head up the northern highway that cuts through Iraq’s semiautonomous region of Kurdistan, a turnoff to the east leads you into the […]
Read more »Libya After Gaddafi
May 22nd, 2013
Via Eurasia Review, a detailed look at Libya: Libya is a country located in Northern Africa that borders the Mediterranean Sea. Until the 1950s, it was regarded as another poor African state, but the discovery of oil greatly increased its wealth, turning it into one of the richest African countries and also increasing its significance […]
Read more »Latin American Geoeconomics: A Continental Divide
May 22nd, 2013
Via The Economist, an interesting article on the region’s division into two alternative blocks: the market-led Pacific Alliance and the more statist Mercosur: ON MAY 23rd in the Colombian city of Cali the presidents of four Latin American countries—Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru—will sign an agreement removing tariffs on 90% of their merchandise trade. They […]
Read more »A New Oil Dispute Between South Sudan And Sudan
May 22nd, 2013
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on the latest dispute between South Sudan and Sudan: South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit. (SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images) Summary As South Sudan and Sudan attempt to work out a more permanent settlement regarding oil revenue and border demarcation — the current agreements expire in three and a half years — […]
Read more »Angola: “A Sea Of Opportunities But An Ocean Of Difficulties”
May 20th, 2013
Via Emerging Markets Insights, a look at Angola: I have already discovered this on my first day of touching ground in Luanda. Even though I knew Angola’s capital is famously the most expensive city in the world, prices are even beyond one’s wildest imagination. A pretty average hotel room that already cost 450 USD a […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.