The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism Part 10
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The following chapters are independent essays written in May, June and July 2016, and they can be read in any order.
The wars for the global resources of oil and natural gas are the topic of most essays. To a large extent, the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries were the result of energy rich countries competing to secure their exports, or the result of energy poor countries competing to secure their access to energy resources.
Many episodes of the energy wars of the 20th and 21st centuries are described in the following essays.
I.A.
Iakovos Alhadeff
I have studied economics to postgraduate level. I never worked as an economist though. I worked in the field of charter accountancyand I completed the relevant professional exams (the Greek equivalent of the English A.C.A.). My essays are written for the general reader with no economic or accounting knowledge, and the emphasis is on intuition. All my documents are extremely pro market and quite anti-socialist in nature. I admire economists from the Chicago and the Austrian School i.e. Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard. I am Greek and English is not my first language, so I hope you will excuse potential errors in my syntax.
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The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism Part 10 - Iakovos Alhadeff
The Geopolitics of Energy & Terrorism
Part 10
Iakovos Alhadeff
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Copyright © 2016, Iakovos Alhadeff
Table of Contents
Introduction
Sunni VS Shia : The Origin of the Schism
The Production of Oil and the Price of Oil
The Difference Between Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood
The Funding of the German Communists
The Paradox of Afghanistan
Islamic State VS Al-Qaeda
Turning to Kurdistan
War or Peace?
George Clooney – Muslim Brotherhood
Brad Pitt – Muslim Brotherhood
The Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna in 1814
Introduction
The following chapters are independent essays written in July and August 2016, and they can be read in any order.
The wars for the global resources of oil and natural gas are the topic of most essays. To a large extent, the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries were the result of energy rich countries competing to secure their exports, or the result of energy poor countries competing to secure their access to energy resources.
Many episodes of the energy wars of the 20th and 21st centuries are described in the following essays.
I.A.
August. 2016
Sunni VS Shia : The Origin of the Schism
Very nice article from the Council of Foreign Relations about the origins of the schism of Sunni and Shia Islam.
http://www.iranpoliticsclub.net/maps/images/155%20Safavid%20Persian%20Empire%20Map.jpg
The Persians (Safavids) converted to Shia Islam in 1501 A.D. in order to fight the Sunni Ottoman Caliphate. The borders of the time determined today’s distribution of the Sunni Shia population, with Iran, Iraq and Azerbaijan being Shia majority countries, and the rest of the Muslim World being Sunni majority. Bahrain is also a Shia majority country.
Map
http://images.slideplayer.com/24/7228575/slides/slide_2.jpg
As I have said before the Sunni-Shia schism is to a large extent the result of the fight between the Ottomans and the Persians for the fertile lands of Mesopotamia, the lands between the rivers Tiger and Euphrates.
Map
http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/mesopotamia%20map.gif
Map
http://www.mrdowling.com/images/603fertilecrescent_small.png
85% Sunni and 15% Shia
http://www.cfr.org/peace-conflict-and-human-rights/sunni-shia-divide/p33176#!/?cid=otr-marketing_url-sunni_shia_infoguide
Map Ethnic Groups of Iraq Green=Shia Arabs, Yellow=Sunni Arabs and blue=Sunni Kurds (white=desert)
http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/images/maps/Iraq_Ethnic_lg.png
The Sunni-Shia Divide
http://www.cfr.org/peace-conflict-and-human-rights/sunni-shia-divide/p33176#!/?cid=otr-marketing_url-sunni_shia_infoguide
This 16th Century Battle Created the Modern Middle East
, August 2014
http://thediplomat.com/2014/08/this-16th-century-battle-created-the-modern-middle-east/
The Production of Oil and the Price of Oil
In picture 1 you can see the oil production of the international oil cartel (OPEC). You can see that Saudi Arabia can produce 10 million barrels of oil per day, far ahead from everybody else. Russia and the United States, who have similar production capacities, are not included.
Image Oil Production by