Raw material criticality has played an important role in geostrategic thinking, especially since the crisis surrounding the price and supply of rare earths at the beginning of the 2010s. However, once dependency and strategic importance grow too strong, substitution efforts will take place that...

The collapse if OPEC has been prophesied repeatedly since it was first founded in Baghdad in September 1960. Yet in spite of all their differences its members, which now number 13 countries, have so far always managed to establish at least a formal bare minimum of consensus. It may be that...