Turkey: Energy Ambitions And Limitations
November 20th, 2013
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at Turkey’s energy ambitions and limitations: Turkey hopes to take advantage of its location between Europe and Asia and become a regional energy corridor for oil and natural gas moving from Russia, the Caspian Basin, Central Asia and the Middle East to the large consumer market in Europe. These […]
Read more »Bolivia’s Descent Into Rogue State Status
November 19th, 2013
Via the Wall Street Journal, interesting commentary on Bolivia: In the years after a brutal 10-year Soviet occupation, Afghanistan became a petri dish in which a culture of organized crime, radical politics and religious fundamentalism festered—and where Osama bin Laden set up operations. Now something similar may be happening in Bolivia. The government is an […]
Read more »BRICS vs. MINTS
November 14th, 2013
Via Bloomberg, an interesting article on MINTs by Jim O’Neill: I spent last week in Indonesia, working on a series for BBC Radio about four of the world’s most populous non-BRIC emerging economies. The BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — are already closely watched. The group I’m studying for this project — […]
Read more »The Future of BRIC & MIST Economies
November 14th, 2013
Via AlphaNow, an interesting infographic on BRIC and MIST economies:
Read more »Pipelines Of Empire
November 13th, 2013
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of the geopolitical impact of pipelines in Europe: At this juncture in history, the fate of Europe is wound up not in ideas but in geopolitics. For millennia, eruptions from Asia have determined the fate of Europe, including invasions and migrations by Russians, Turkic tribes and Byzantine […]
Read more »Prospects for the Moscow-Busan “Iron Silk Road Express”
November 12th, 2013
Via SinoNK, a report on the new rail connection between Russia and North Korea: The DPRK’s northeast is once again the place to look for economic and political policy changes in the hermit kingdom. Since Rason Special Economic Zone’s 2009 rise in development, China has been the main investor in the borderlands. But now Russia […]
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.