KAMPEN OM KLODEN - OPDATERET

Nedenfor bringes der løbende links til dokumenter og in-depth artikler på internationale websites med relation til temaerne "kampen om kloden" og "global geopolitik":

2011:

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Full Text: China's Peaceful Development. The Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, on Tuesday published a white paper on China's peaceful development. Xinhua, 6. september, 2011: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/06/c_131102329.htm 

Uge 40
Vladimir Putin: A new integration project for Eurasia. The future in the making. "A crucial integration project, the Common Economic Space of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan (CES), will kick off on January 1, 2012. This project is, without exaggeration, a historic milestone for all three countries and for the broader post-Soviet space". Artikel offentliggjort i Izvestija, 4. oktober 2011, engelsk oversættelse: http://premier.gov.ru/eng/events/news/16622/

Uge 41
Hillary Clinton: America's Pacific Century. "The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action". Foreign Policy, November 2011: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/10/11/americas_pacific_century

Uge 42
Pepe Escobar: The US power grab in Africa. "Italian geographer and political scientist Manlio Dinucci is one of the few to point out how neo-colonialism 2.0 works; one just needs to look at the map. In Central Africa, the objective is US military supremacy - on air and in intel - over Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo". Asia Times Online, 21. oktober 2011: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MJ21Dj03.html

Uge 43
Firoze Manji: US Sends Troops To Uganda - Is It About The Oil? The Real News Network, 27. oktober 2011: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7507&updaterx=2011-10-27+10%3A22%3A11


Eric Margolis: Into Darkest Africa, October 29, 2011: "Washington may get sucked into a complex, turbulent region in which it has no real strategic interests other than the lust for energy and a knee-jerk reaction to anything Islamic". http://www.ericmargolis.com/political_commentaries/into-darkest-africa.aspx

Uge 44
Lauren Goodrich: Russia: Rebuilding an Empire While It Can. "The concern is whether the “reset” is truly a shift in relations between the two former adversaries or simply a respite before relations deteriorate again". Stratfor. Global Intelligence, 31. oktober 2011: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20111031-russia-rebuilding-empire-while-it-can?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20111101&utm_term=gweekly&utm_content=readmore&elq=f53ebe92d6f24f3fa8398da8d9261854

James R. Holmes: Mutual Dependence and War, The Diplomat, 4. november 2011: http://the-diplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2011/11/04/mutual-dependence-and-war/

Uge 45
Fyodor Lukyanov: North Stream and the future of Russian energy policy. "The pipeline has been launched amid growing Russian debate about the energy sector’s development strategy, in particular a balance between its Asian and European vectors". RIA Novosti, 10. november, 2011: http://en.rian.ru/columnists/20111110/168580555.html

Uge 46
Video: George Friedman and Robert Kaplan discuss China's naval expansion & its threat to U.S. dominance, George Friedman and author and foreign affairs expert Robert Kaplan agree on China’s ambition, but have very different views on its geopolitical impact. A STRATFOR Conversation, 15. november 2011: http://app.response.stratfor.com/e/es.aspx?s=1483&e=394065&elq=b9458ca795bf483a8a0b89c8dec27708

Uge 48
Sir Malcolm Rifkind: Europe Grapples with U.S. Pivot. "European nations will have to get used to the U.S. paying more attention to Asia, says Sir Malcolm Rifkind. It doesn’t have to be a bad thing". The Diplomat, 1. december 2011, http://the-diplomat.com/2011/12/01/europe-grapples-with-u-s-pivot/?all=true

Niccolò Locatelli: Obama and China: 21st Century containment in three moves. "Sino-US relations are based on mutual mistrust". Heartland, 2. december 2011, http://temi.repubblica.it/limes-heartland/obama-and-china-21st-century-containment-in-three-moves/1888

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M. K. Bhadrakumar: Bear nettles the eagle, dragon smiles. "It's not about 'democracy', it's Putin, stupid!". Asia Times Online, 10. december 2011, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/ML10Ag01.html

Uge 50
Scott Stewart: The Syria Crises: Assessing Foreign Intervention. "We therefore would like to examine more closely the potential external efforts required to topple the Syrian regime". Stratfor. Global Intelligence, 15. december 2011, http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20111214-syria-crisis-assessing-foreign-intervention?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=111215&utm_term=sweekly&utm_content=readmore&elq=43a057fe339048769a4a5d98241333fe

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Pepe Escobar: Playing chess in Eurasia. "... there's a never-ending thriller floating downstream: Pipelineistan. That's the chessboard where the half-hidden twin of the Pentagon's "long war" is played out". Asia Times Online, 22. december 2011, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/ML22Ag02.html

2012

Uge 1
Max Fisher: 6 Lessons of Obama's New Pentagon Plan for American Foreign Policy. "The Obama administration's new plan for reducing Defense Department spending by $450 billion in the years ahead will not dramatically transform much of anything". The Atlantic, 7. januar 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/01/6-lessons-of-obamas-new-pentagon-plan-for-american-foreign-policy/251012/

Jamal Wakim: Syria: Heart of a global struggle? "We need to see this confrontation in Syria as part of a bigger confrontation between a coalition of continental powers on the one hand – which includes Russia, China and Iran – confronting a coalition of maritime powers – including the United States, Western Europe and Turkey. The main scene of confrontation is the Middle East, and the core of the Middle East is Syria, for the time being. So we cannot isolate what is going on there from the bigger perspective". RT, 7. januar 2012, http://rt.com/news/syria-bombing-foreign-plot-341/

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Elmar Brok (interview): "US-Kräfte haben uns den Währungskrieg erklärt". "Die Solidarität der USA gegenüber Europa verfolgte immer auch Eigeninteressen. Außerdem gibt es innerhalb der US-Regierung seit langem schon zwei Lager. Das State Department ist für ein geeintes Europa. Andere Ministerien verfolgen hingegen nach wie vor das Ziel divide et impera – teile und herrsche. Denen ist ein geteiltes, weniger einflussreiches Europa lieber". Die Welt Online, 16. januar 2012, http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article13817253/US-Kraefte-haben-uns-den-Waehrungskrieg-erklaert.html

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Matthias Nass: Mach's gut, Europa! "Am Pazifik hat ein neues Wettrüsten begonnen. Alle stellen sich darauf ein, dass aus wirtschaftlichem Wettbewerb und politischem Ringen militärische Rivalität werden kann. Europa hingegen, im Kalten Krieg Zentrum aller Spannungen, liegt heute am Rande des machtpolitischen Kräftemessens. Zeit Online, 23. januar 2012, http://www.zeit.de/2012/04/US-Militaerstrategie

Uge 6
M. K. Bhadrakumar: Run-up to proxy war over Syria. "Russia and China's double veto of the Arab League resolution on Syria in the United Nations Security Council constitutes a watershed event". Asia Times Online, 7. februar 2012, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NB07Ad01.html

Uge 7
Zbigniew Brzezinski: How the U.S. Can Secure the New East, The Diplomat, 16. februar 2012, http://the-diplomat.com/2012/02/16/how-u-s-can-secure-the-new-east/