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Afghanistan: The TAPI Pipeline
From: Oil and World Politics
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Discusses Afghanistan’s geopolitically strategic location between Central and South Asia, and the long-planned pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India (TAPI). Analyzes the US support for pipeline planning, first negotiating with the former Taliban government, later working through the Asian Development Bank. The US opposed the rival Chinese-backed pipeline project from Iran to Pakistan.
Contributors
John Foster
JOHN FOSTER is an energy economist who has worked for 40 years in policy and economic issues relating to infrastructure and petroleum. While working at the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, Petro-Canada and BP group, he witnessed first-hand the impact petroleum geopolitics in more than 30 countries around the world. Today he gives talks on petroleum rivalries and conflicts at universities and trade union and public meetings across Canada. He is the author of the research paper A Pipeline Through a Troubled Land, published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and contributor to the book Afghanistan and Canada: Is there an Alternative to War? He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
