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The Political Challenge to Petroleum Activity around Svalbard

Posted on July 23, 2013 at 2:13 pm

RUSI Journal, Apr 2014, Vol. 159, No. 2 By Gjert Lage Dyndal

The petroleum industry has greatly increased its activities within the Arctic, and nations are desirous to award new licences for further hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation. The eu High North has become a sought-after region on this regard, and up to date discoveries within the Hoop High fields and other areas along the brink of the maritime zone across the Svalbard archipelago have again created debate in regards to the underlying judicial and political challenges that could spark international conflict. Gjert Lage Dyndal discusses the disputed status of the realm and argues that the petroleum industry may prove central to a compromise solution.

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Bridging the Gulf? America’s ‘Rebalance’ and the center East Challenge to the united kingdom

Posted on July 11, 2013 at 9:57 am

RUSI Journal, Feb 2014, Vol. 159, No. 1 By Doug Stokes and Paul Newton

Strategy is normally about choices and people made within the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review could have significant implications for the way forward for UK defence and wider national security. America has already made profound choices on this regard: it’s rebalancing to East Asia. The consequences for the united kingdom, both as a US partner and a serious European military power, include the opportunity of deeper engagement with the center East and North Africa. Doug Stokes and Paul Newton examine the UK’s nascent ‘east of Suez’ initiative, its key interests in addition to the geopolitical drivers, dangers and opportunities involved. Because the US seeks greater burden-sharing from its European allies, should the united kingdom bridge the Gulf?

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