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The geopolitics behind RIMPAC, the worlds largest naval exercise
2014-07-11 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The worlds largest naval exercise is currently underway in the Pacific. Rim of the Pacific or RIMPAC will see ships, submarines and aircraft from 22 nations train together for an intensive four week period. For the first time in RIMPACs 43-year
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The ineptness of geopolitics
2014-04-16 04:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Between 1814 and 1815, ambassadors from five great European countries sat together in the Congress of Vienna to find a balance of power in Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. They succeeded, and set a model for diplomacy and managing state interests that persists to this day. The paradigm included territorial trade-offs, and the premise that rational men - and it is almost always men - trading interests can find answers to contests of power. Two hundred years later, in a far less august setting,...
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Peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict
2013-05-13 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes. But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a political solution to an increasingly intractable conflict, its underlying causes in a fatal convergence of energy, climate and economic factors remain little understood. The UN high commissioner for human rights has offered a conservative under-estimate of the...
VIDEO: Will geopolitics trump business?
2013-01-15 06:46:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
How will Asia's geopolitical problems develop in 2013, and what impact might they have on the region's economies?
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