bers would be accused, civil war would ensue, and Sunnis and Shia would fight, in the memorable words of Bashar al-Assad, from the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea. Now the tribunal provokes hardly a yawn, as lawyers pursue the laborious legal process in their Dutch bubble. This week, the Lebanese state paid i

laims in the South China Sea and into a similar dispute with Japan in the East China Sea. Energy- related disputes of this sort can also be found in the Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice-free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously su

t cannot last, don't. "People putting bread on the table, bearing the pressure, they have a limit," said a businessman I chatted with on a beach of the Caspian Sea. "Sooner or later, the limit will come and things will change." Insha'Allah. (God willing.) The Daily Beast Meet Prince Salman, the Next Saudi K

31 May 2015 Integrated Oil US Integrated Oils Caspian Sea, ex Russia Production from the Caspian Sea is largely concentrated around a few mega projects in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan (with smaller contributions from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). The

hund=ed of soldiers to Syria. It has already conducted hundreds of air st=ikes. It has even launched cruise missile strikes from ships anchore= in the Caspian Sea at targets nearly a thousand miles away. The Rus=ian government claims that it is targeting the Islamic State, but many of =he air strikes appear to

lmost totally isolated and crucially weakened. That Moscow cannot allow. Why is Iran so central to Mr. Putin's global pretensions? Take a look at the Caspian Sea area map and the strategic equations come into relief. Iran acts as a southern bottleneck to the geography of Central Asia. It could offer the West

igns — either on their territories or their regimes. Iran also targets Azerbaijan. In 2001, Iranian forces blew up an Azeri oil exploration ship in the Caspian Sea, claiming it was in Iranian territorial waters. In 2009, Iran's movement of an oil rig toward Azerbaijan's territorial waters in the Capsian Sea l

32 EFTA01882568 China Sea and into a similar dispute with Japan in the East China Sea. Energy-related disputes of this sort can also be found in the Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice- free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously su