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Russia, seeking a new place in the global architecture, is pursuing an increasingly assertive foreign policy. President Barack Obama and his Administration will need to tread carefully whenconfronting the mix of great-power anti-status quo revisionism andresentment, recent symptoms of which include the Russian-Georgianwar, energy conflicts in Europe, Russian pressure against Ukraine,and consolidation of Russian power in Eurasia.
The party that leads Turkey's government, the AKP, is not thesteadfast U.S. ally that its predecessors often were and threatensto turn Turkey from the U.S. and the West and toward its Islamicneighbors.
The U.S. should increase pressure on OPEC and non-OPEC countries,which are failing to meet production forecasts, to open access toIOCs while authorizing oil production in ANWR, other promisingArctic areas, and the lower 48 states to expand domestic energyproduction. Rising oil consumption within key oil-producing statesleaves less oil for export, posing a significant constraint onfuture supply.