IASPS's Africa Oil Policy Initiative Group (AOPIG)
The most important geo-strategic developments in
recent US energy policy are linked to West Africa.
Institute Strategic Fellow Paul Michael Wihbey
spearheaded four years of policy entrepreneurship
capped off in this Institute White Paper. Wihbey
(and Barry Schutz) organized the Institute’s
AOPIG with IASPS Director Robert Heiler. The
policy recommendations assume an American
strategic commitment. But the ramifications of the
Initiative reach back to the “other Gulf.”
West African oil is what can help stabilize the
Middle East, end Muslim terror and secure a
measure of energy security. First, the Africa
Initiative is Africa’s Turn. And, turning Africa can
help turn the kaleidoscope that will reset
misalliances and unseat misrule driven by oil and
murder. It’s a policy.
-Click
here to read the White Paper
-Click here
to read the transcript of a recent IASPS Symposium on
the subject
-Click
here for coverage of a press conference
announcing the project
The
Peace Process has Come to America
Click
here for a list of articles in IASPS' new
series of commentaries.
Turkish
Daily News
Interviews IASPS Analyst
The Turkish Daily News
published an interview with IASPS Strategic Fellow
Paul Michael Wihbey on July 17th entitled
“Strategic alliance in Central Asia creates new
Eurasian power center.”
Click here to
read it.
Institute
Hosts Conference on Turkish Water and Caspian
Energy in Israel
On May 30th, in Jerusalem, the Institute held
a daylong symposium focusing on the regional and
strategic dimension of the importation of Turkish
water to Israel and Caspian oil and gas for the
Eastern Mediterranean. Among the speakers were
Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure
Avigdor Lieberman; Minister of Regional
Cooperation Tsippi Livni; Deputy Minister of
National Infrastructure (water) Naomi Blumenthal;
deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Office Dr.
Yuri Stern; and His Excellency Ahmet Uzumcu,
Turkish ambassador to Israel, as well as IASPS
analysts. Click
here to read more about it.
Herald
Tribune: IASPS Analysis Shows US Needs Reality
Check on Energy
On May 8th, 2001,
the International Herald Tribune pointed
its readers to IASPS research and analysis showing
that the United States no longer needs to rely on
Persian Gulf oil to meet its energy needs. Click
here to read the article.
IASPS
Analyst Addresses Washington Times
Editorial Board on African Issues
On
March 29th, 2001, Paul Michael Wihbey, IASPS
Strategic Fellow, was a featured guest along with
Congressman Ed Royce, Chairman of the House
International Relations Subcommittee on Africa at
an editorial board meeting of the Washington
Times.
The topic of Mr. Wihbey’s presentation
centered on the strategic significance of Africa
for U.S. energy security policy, noting that we
already import as much oil each day from Nigeria
as from Saudi Arabia. Click
here to read the resulting Washington Times
Article.
IASPS
Fellow addresses Turkish Conference on Water
Resources
On November 28, 2000, IASPS Strategic
Fellow Paul Michael Wihbey was a keynote speaker
at a conference in Ankara, Turkey sponsored by the
Center for Eurasian Studies (ASAM).
He spoke on the issue of water as a key
component of regional security including its
impact on Israeli-Turkish bilateral relations. Click
here to read his remarks.
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