MenuThe Wall Street Journal – The Experts October 3, 2014 By Dr. Ariel Cohen ARIEL COHEN: While energy experts love to discuss climate change, they often disregard the actual costs and benefits of this phenomenon. As political violence rises globally, addressing, let alone reversing, climate change, is becoming increasingly challenging. Whether climate change is man-made
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Let’s Open Federal Lands for Energy Exploration
If I could pass one energy policy, what would it be?
I would open federal lands and offshore acreage for hydrocarbon prospecting.
OBAMA INACTION ON UKRAINE COULD IMPEDE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
The Washington Times September 1, 2014 By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro Ariel Cohen, director of the Center for Energy Natural Resources and Geopolitics at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, said the situation “looks like a disaster for Ukraine, but more importantly, it looks like a disaster for the cause of nonproliferation. “This is
ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN: ON THE BRINK OF WAR?
The National Interest
August 7, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
The messy business of post-imperial disintegration is not over. The eruption of Russian-Ukrainian hostilities is not the only case in point. The former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan are at it again, too.
THE ISLAMIC STATE: BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID
OilPrice.com
July 15, 2014
By Claude Salhani
If you think the oil industry is already too powerful, imagine that power under the control of already powerful terrorists whose aim is political supremacy over multiple territories.
ARIEL COHEN: FRANCE UNLIKELY TO BRING ABOUT RESOLUTION TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT
Trend AZ
July 8, 2014
By Claude Salhani
Ariel Cohen spoke to Trend regarding several topical issues, including the U.S.-Azerbaijan relations, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, recent developments in Iraq and Iran’s disputed nuclear program.
EUROPE’S ENERGY DEPENDENCE ON RUSSIA CAN’T LAST
The Heritage Foundation
May 26, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
Vladimir Putin is the father of the most significant energy mix shift in Europe. Ukraine may be the straw that broke the back of the energy camel.
UKRAINE’S FUTURE: TO WHOM DOES IT BELONG?
The Heritage Foundation
May 25, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
In the recent makeshift referenda in Donetsk and Luhansk unrecognized by the West, a small minority of eligible voters voted in favor of secession from Ukraine. Now, some Western politicians and analysts are wondering: If those people came out to vote for “independence,” aren’t we obligated to consider their opinion when pondering the future of Ukraine?
THREE KEYS TO EUROPEAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE FROM RUSSIA
Wall Street Journal
May 21, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
Vladimir Putin is the father of the most significant energy mix shift in Europe. Ukraine may be the straw that broke the back of the energy camel.