Saudi Arabia Comes To The Rescue Of The Egyptian Economy
April 25th, 2016
Via the Geopolitical Monitor, an interesting look at how Egypt’s economic struggles have allowed Saudi Arabia to increase its hold over a major geopolitical prize of waterborne trade – the Suez Canal: The Arab Spring uprising left Egypt with an assortment of leaders and an uncertain future. After the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak in February […]
Read more »Megacities Becoming The World’s Dominant Social And Economic Structures
April 21st, 2016
Courtesy of Quartz, a look at how cities have become the world’s dominant demographic and economic clusters: As the sociologist Christopher Chase-Dunn has pointed out, it is not population or territorial size that drives world-city status, but economic weight, proximity to zones of growth, political stability, and attractiveness for foreign capital. In other words, connectivity […]
Read more »In Iraqi Kurdistan, Momentum Builds for an Iranian Pipeline
April 14th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), interesting analysis of the potential for a pipeline to take Kurdish oil to market through Iran: For years, Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran have been in talks to construct a pipeline that would transport Kurdish oil to the Iranian market. Until now, the negotiations have lagged as the Kurdistan Regional Government […]
Read more »One Belt, One Road
April 13th, 2016
Via Eurasia Review, an interesting article on Singapore’s involvement in China’s One Belt, One Road initiative: Main routes of the Silk Road. In the 14th century, Mongol dominance in Asia resulted in the Pax Mongolica, a framework of peaceful trading relationships straddling the Maritime and Overland Silk Roads, allowing the Kingdom of Singapura to flourish into […]
Read more »Kurdistan: Promise And Peril
April 10th, 2016
Two interesting articles on Kurdistan. The first, via Geopolitical Monitor, is a detailed examination of Iraqi Kurdistan’s rise as an independent energy player . The second, courtesy of Daily Beast, looks at threat that Kurdistan’s weakening economy may have upon the region: Iraqi Kurdistan and the governing Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is in the midst […]
Read more »Use It or Lose It: China’s Grand Strategy
April 9th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting look at China’s grand strategy: In 2010, Canada hosted the G7 finance ministers in Nunavut, the country’s frigid Arctic province that is home to a mere 30,000 Inuit people. Canada’s “Northern Strategy” for the Arctic was a centerpiece of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s tenure, resulting in 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.