by Nathan Alvarado-Castle | Feb 5, 2014 | Monitor
Libya Says Gadhafi Regime’s Chemical Weapons All Destroyed Defense News Libya has completely destroyed the chemical arsenal it inherited from the ousted dictatorship of Moammar Gadhafi, Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz announced on Tuesday. Defense contracts...
by Nathan Alvarado-Castle | Jan 22, 2014 | Monitor
The Geopolitics of The Syrian Civil War Reva Bhalla / Forbes International diplomats will gather Jan. 22 in the Swiss town of Montreux to hammer out a settlement designed to end Syria’s three-year civil war. The conference, however, will be far removed from the...
by Nathan Alvarado-Castle | Jan 22, 2014 | Monitor
According to president and founder of the Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer, a scenario where the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) loses leverage on oil pricing in 2014 is likely. Bremmer claims that increased oil production in Libya, Iraq, and the...
by Nathan Alvarado-Castle | Jan 13, 2014 | Monitor
Last week at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), CSIS’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program hosted Dr. Dane S. Egil, a Senior Advisor for National Security Strategies at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Egil’s,...
by Nathan Alvarado-Castle | Jan 13, 2014 | Monitor
Negotiators Put Final Touches on Iran Accord Michael R. Gordon and Eric Schmitt / New York Times Iran and a group of six world powers completed a deal on Sunday that will temporarily freeze much of Tehran’s nuclear program starting next Monday, Jan. 20, in exchange...