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Each year Chatham House experts, speakers and publications contribute to around 3,000 interviews and articles in the national and international media. The list below is a short selection of contributions in recent days and weeks.
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A nuclear-equipped missile launch would only be attractive in extremis if the North's leadership felt that regime survival was an issue, rather than as a means of securing strategic assets in a future conflict, writes
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Events like In Amenas make it more expensive to produce oil and gas in north Africa, so the majors are bound to look to the governments of the region to ease their fiscal terms, says Paul Stevens.
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With exceptions such as Mr Miliband, who has yet to see it, British politicians extol the Lincoln biopic. Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, drew the sharpest conclusion in his Chatham House speech on Europe.
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Possible exports of 250,000 barrels a day are 'not going anywhere because there is no revenue coming for the contractors, and Iraq once again negated on its promises to implement the agreement' between the two governments, [Natural Resources Minister for the Kurdistan Regional Government Ashti] Hawrami told reporters during a briefing at Chatham House.
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Alex Vines says talk of an 'arc of instability' spreading across the north of Africa is alarmist.
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OPEC anticipates oil prices of around $110 a barrel on average for 2013, OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla El-Badri said on the sidelines of a Chatham House conference.
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Global crude markets will remain well supplied in 2013 to meet growing demand, OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla El-Badri said at Chatham House.
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The report Resources Futures warns that economies will be increasingly disrupted by often faraway disruptions in supply chains.
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The report Resources Futures shows that in the decade 2000-10, the price volatility of major commodities increased by more than factor six.
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A US-Afghanistan security agreement would send an important signal to Afghans and to regional players that this time the West will not turn its back on Afghanistan, write Michael Keating and Matt Waldman.
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For Russia, it is difficult to exaggerate the potential geopolitical and geo-economic importance of the Arctic, says Charles Emmerson.
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Corruption is a major problem and the perception of corruption in Angola by investors is increasing, says Alex Vines.
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Arctic drilling is a strategic imperative for Russia, says Charles Emmerson.
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The fragmented results of Israel's election might produce a government incapable of answering the most pressing challenges, writes Yossi Mekelberg.
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The economic and physical distribution infrastructure is probably still more in the Syrians regime hands than with the rebels says David Butter.
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International oil companies are in many cases concerned because what is perceived by western companies and governments as the 'duty of care' to hostages was possibly not met in a case where 37 foreigners were killed, says Jon Marks.
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That view [that Labour would keep its options open on a referendum] was reflected in Miliband's recent broadcast interviews and the definitive speech to Chatham House delivered by the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander.
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As a recent paper from Chatham House argues, Georgia's civil society is currently too weak to influence politics. Citizens do not participate in debates over public policy, and NGOs are the least understood of all public institutions.
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In June 2012, the government made some changes to its policies, allowing foreign retailers to operate with less restrictions in the country. This, according to Gareth Price, was aimed at building up much-needed infrastructure in particular in the agricultural sector.
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Jon Marks said the governments involved quickly woke up to the potentially huge ramifications of how narrowly they had avoided a much bigger disaster.