Jan 13, 2017Part 2 — The Russo-American Big Energy Orgy: Bringing Big Energy BackIn the first part of this post, I argued that one of the more important back stories of the 2016 US elections was a Russian-American...
Jan 12, 2017Part 1 — The Russian-American Big Energy Orgy: Big Energy against the Backdrop of the US ElectionsMuch of the post-election chatter in the United States has focused on the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and...
Nov 11, 2016The Malian Crisis: thinking more broadly about the security sector agendaFor the UN, the Mali deployment has been politically one of its most important to date, one of its largest in terms of numbers of...
Nov 11, 2016The Malian Crisis: chaos in the makingBackground In the 1990s, Mali was often put forward as a model of African democracy. It is not hard to understand why. Following an...