Posted by Matt in July 14th, 2008 |
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Russia,
1970s,
Appointment,
Back In The Ussr,
Belarus,
Crises,
Demise,
Economy,
Leonid Brezhnev,
Prime Minister,
Record Oil Prices,
Regime,
Russia,
Soviet Union,
Tendencies,
Ussr,
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin’s appointment this spring as prime minister of the symbolic “union” of Russia and Belarus was yet another example of the troubling similarities between today’s Russia and the other most stable and prosperous Russian regime of the past 80 years: Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union in the 1970s. That economy, too, was fueled by then-record [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 9th, 2008 |
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Oil,
Bush Administration,
Caspian Basin,
Countries In Africa,
Crude Oil,
Developing World,
Dozen Countries,
East Timor,
Emergence,
Energy Imports,
Energy Task Force,
Grievances,
Internal Strife,
Michael L Ross,
Oil And Gas,
Oil Producer,
Oil Wealth,
Persian Gulf,
Record Oil Prices,
Rich Countries,
Southeast Asia,
Stratospheric Prices,
Unrest,
War,
Windfalls
The number of oil-producer-based conflicts is likely to grow in the future as stratospheric prices of crude oil push more countries in the developing world to produce oil and gas. In 2001, the Bush administration’s energy task force hailed the emergence of new producers as a chance for the United States to diversify the sources [...]
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