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Brief: Serbia’s Show of Force to Kosovo

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Background: Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, less than...
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Brief: The UK and the USMCA

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Background: The post-Brexit United Kingdom is still trying to define its...
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Daily Memo: Chinese Missile Tech, Austin’s Black Sea Tour

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China's leap forward. China reportedly caught the U.S. off guard by testing a sophisticated...
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What We’re Reading: The Cause of War and Tyranny

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Man, the State, and War:A Theoretical Analysis By Kenneth Waltz As a former international relations student,...
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What We’re Reading: African Literature and Russia Television

What We're ReadingEkaterina Zolotova, Abubakar Alhassan -
Nemtsy By Stas Ivanov Ignoring the Soviet era, Russia has a pretty bad record of film...
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The Illusion of Arab Nationalism

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The Arab uprisings briefly resurrected the idea of Arab nationalism. During the 2011 Pan...
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What’s Driving the Spike in Energy Prices?

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Inflation has been a big story around the world for much of 2021. But...
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Last week, I spoke and moderated at several conferences in person – a rare thing since the pandemic began – whose topics ranged from...
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Explanations for the Labor Shortage

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The current breakdown of the global supply chain threatens to change the future of...
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Why Evergrande Is Going to Plan

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The saga of debt-ridden Chinese property giant Evergrande, which has been rattling markets at...
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Arab Leaders and Their Delicate Egos

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Arab leaders, no matter how divided they might be, all have one thing in...
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The Threat of Another Caucasus Conflict

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A year after the brief war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, tensions are...
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RealClearWorld: Is This Uzbekistan’s Time?

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In our 2019 Annual Forecast, we said we expected Uzbekistan to challenge Kazakhstan as the dominant power in Central Asia. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed any...
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El Herald de Mexico: México-EEUU: ¿nuevo trato?

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"'Si bien las iniciativas de México pueden no tener el mismo impacto en el hemisferio que las de Washington, son suficientes para mostrarle a...
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Cicero: Projekt „Blaue Heimat“

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Die Türkei tritt im östlichen Mittelmeerraum zunehmend aggressiv auf – es geht um Gasvorkommen, den Zypern-Konflikt und um geostrategische Ziele. Wegen der Pandemie hat...
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Daily Memo: A Note on Supply Chains, Evergrande Misses Another Payment

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Comments on Supply Chain and Labor Issues Editor’s note: We are sharing a useful insight from one of our subscribers on his experience with the...
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Explanations for the Labor Shortage

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The current breakdown of the global supply chain threatens to change the future of the world. If this worsens, the fabric of the global...
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George Friedman on Life, Work and Money: Geopolitics and Economics

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George Friedman unpacks the relationship between geopolitics and economics, with host Langley Respess, as well as the relationship between the United States and China, and how demographics is shaping our future.
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Daily Memo: Coal Shortages in China and India

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Roadblock. China’s attempts to resolve its ongoing power crunch hit a new snag. New flooding in the central Shanxi province over the weekend shut...
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Why Evergrande Is Going to Plan

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The saga of debt-ridden Chinese property giant Evergrande, which has been rattling markets at home and abroad, isn’t going away anytime soon. After missing...
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China’s Hunt for Coal

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(click to enlarge) In many ways, China's ongoing electricity crunch is a mess of its own making. It's due in part, for example, to an...
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