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Audio interview with Gal Luft, click to listen.
"Ending Offshore Oil Drilling: More Harm Than Good?," NPR, May 18, 2010
Gal Luft said the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline could also "have profound implications for the geopolitics of energy in the 21st century and for the future of South Asia."
"Pakistan gas pipeline is Iran's lifeline ," UPI, March 19, 2010
"To be able to honour its gas export contracts, Russia has to turn to coal, said Kevin Rosner, senior fellow at the US Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. Rosner presented his research, entitled 'Russian coal: Europe's new energy challenge' and sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, at a public event hosted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation."
"West worries about Russia turning to coal," EurActiv, March 10, 2010
Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, said Iran has dropped its reliance on gasoline imports from 40 percent to 25 percent [...] "There is a lot of hype about gasoline sanctions, but they are not going to be very effective," Luft said. "We've missed the boat on this one."
"Oil, Ideology Keep China From Joining Push Against Iran," The Washington Post, September 30, 2009
"When the war really began, the Saudis did not protect their border and thousands of jihadis went across. The Saudis preferred to sit on their hands and allowed this influx into Iraq," Gal Luft said. "Both Iran and Saudi Arabia were concerned that Iraqi oil would eat into their [Opec production] quotas. They have made a fortune from the lack of Iraqi production."
"Basra's failed oil bonanza," The Guardian, April 15, 2009
"The countries involved in making Nabucco happen and the EU should support the project and not be intimidated by Russia," said Kevin Rosner, senior fellow at the independent Institute for the Analysis of Global Security in Washington. "Russia, by creating the impression that the entire Caucasus was now so unstable is exactly what it intended to do in order to destroy Nabucco."
"Georgia crisis could thwart EU project to bypass Russia for natural gas," International Herald Tribune, August 28, 2008
