APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from April 2006

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from April 2006

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-V - Iran's Nuclear Issue.
April 17, 2006... Iran's nuclear ambition and the way the US intends to deal with it have caused America's allies to be split. Even within Britain, the closest ally of the US, the ruling Labour Party is divided on whether or not the UK should support an American...

IRAN - The Tehran Dilemma.
April 17, 2006... The Iranian theocracy's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is facing conflicting pressures as Tehran struggles over its stand-off with the West. He has the final word on important matters and his aloofness from Iran's factional struggles is...

Oil E&P In Kurdistan.(DNO ASA plans to drill oil wells in Iraq)
April 17, 2006... Despite security risks and political instability, Norwegian energy firm DNO is set to start drilling. Plans by DNO to produce oil in Iraqi Kurdistan early next year have raised questions over who controls Iraq's vast petroleum resources. ...

Kurds On A Knife's Edge.
April 17, 2006... The fate of Kurdistan is directly related to political and security developments in the Arab part of Iraq. State-building in Iraq has already failed. The process took a definitive turn for the worse when Saddam Hussein took over the Ba'thist...

IRAQ - Massive US Deployment Or Rapid Retreat.
April 17, 2006... The US policies of "search-and-destroy" and "clear-and-hold" have not eliminated the insurgency. Varying political support for sectarian groups has led to splits between Shi'ites and Sunnis, and within the Shi'ite community. To avert an...

IRAQ - How Expensive To USA?
April 17, 2006... The following are extracts from an article by Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and professor of economics at Columbia University. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Bill Clinton. This article was...

The Iraqi Way To Bad Government.
April 17, 2006... When the Iraqi Minister of State for Tourism and Archaeology Affairs, Hashem al-Hashemy, was appointed acting oil minister earlier this year, it was met by a collective shrug of the shoulders. The sense of resignation, from the public and some...