Archive for February, 2008

February 5, 2008

Energy

Why you shouldn’t care about Nagorno-Karabakh (and why you might one day have to)

by Douglas Muir

A while back I started a series on “frozen conflicts” in the former USSR. The first two (on Transnistria) can be found here and here. I was planning to do them in order from least bad to worst (which would put South Ossetia next) but decided to jump ahead a bit to Nagorno-Karabakh.
What [...]

February 4, 2008

Governments and parties

Serbia: Tadic wins

by Douglas Muir

Narrow — it’s about 51%/49% — but sure.
I’ve already posted on what this means. I’ll confess I was half hoping for a Nikolic victory, if only to shake things up; it would have been bad in the short run, but might have opened up new possibilities further along.
A couple of notes below.

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February 3, 2008

A Fistful Of Euros

Your Sclerotic European Economy

by Alex Harrowell

Is doomed to be overtaken by the tech-fuelled surgeosity of US vitality, right?
Well, perhaps. Where would you decide to put a factory for the mass-production of Li-Ion batteries, the key technology in getting oil out of cars? California? China? Brazil? Try France: that’s what Johnson Controls is doing. Or how about launching 150kg satellites into [...]

A Fistful Of Euros

The Bear Blows First

by Alex Harrowell

Last week, the EU peacekeeping force for Chad/the Central African Republic/and anywhere else in the general mess left of Darfur looked all set; after the French government offered to pony up more troops, and specifically enough Transall cargo planes and Puma support helicopters to assure the force’s mobility, the EU foreign ministers signed off the [...]

February 2, 2008

Culture

Quelqu’un m’a dit

by David Weman

In honor of the wedding…

Kind of unfair she’s usually “former model Carla Bruni”.

February 1, 2008

Governments and parties

Serbia votes; what happens next?

by Douglas Muir

Serbia votes tomorrow. Some observers are casting this as a choice between Good (the EU) and Evil (wicked nationalism). Eh, not really. From the point of view of most Serbian voters, it’s more like a choice between “Not so great, stumbling along, more of the same” and “What the hell, this sucks, [...]

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