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Brief: More Russian Weapons Headed for Belarus

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Background: Belarus is a strategic ally of Russia and a critical...
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Brief: Russia Wants More From Kazakhstan

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Daily Memo: Sanctions and Trade Deals

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Happy anniversary to a trade deal. It's the one-year anniversary of the signing of...
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What We’re Reading: On War, Real and Imagined

What We're ReadingCole Altom, Phillip Orchard -
A History of Warfare By John Keegan Waxing philosophical about war is nearly as old as...
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What We’re Reading: US Power and Nationhood

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Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold...
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Egypt’s Last Chance

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What options does a nation have when its future depends on another country’s decisions...
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A Major Contraction in Jobs

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Some 140,000 Americans lost their jobs last month, the largest decline in employment since...
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The State of Play in North Korea

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In a White House meeting just weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration, then-President Barack Obama warned the president-elect that the North Korean nuclear threat would...
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In Central Asia, a Timely Opportunity for Russia

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In our 2021 annual forecast, we noted that this year, like many years before...
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Kuwait’s Struggle to Create a Modern State

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With a free press, active parliament and dynamic political system, Kuwait is the most...
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The World in 2021

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Introduction Our 2020 global forecast began as follows: Economic dysfunction will remain the main driver of...
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Life After Brexit

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On Dec. 21, France closed its border to the United Kingdom after reports of...
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COVID-19’s Impact on Labor

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(click to enlarge) A key trend in 2021 is the rebalancing of the global economic and financial systems after the disruption caused by COVID-19. The...
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COVID-19: Vaccine Access and Distribution Problems

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(click to enlarge) Geopolitical Futures’ 2021 forecast, released earlier this week, predicts that the process by which COVID-19 vaccines are distributed and administered this year...
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(click to enlarge) As much of the European Union goes under stricter lockdown over the holiday season, economic figures released last week for the third...
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters and detractors are both obsessed with him. They share the belief that everything that has happened is because of...
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RealClearWorld: China Stares Down a Financial Reckoning

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In China, financial regulators need to tread carefully when implementing new de-risking measures. Move too fast, and the private sector may face a credit...
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Index: Magyarország nem Oszt, nem Szoroz, az Európaiak Gyerekesek

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Ezek az országok számítanak nekünk, Magyarország viszont nem akart részt venni ebben a konzorciumban – mondta az Indexnek adott interjúban George Friedman. Full story
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Bloomberg Markets: Biden Has to Take Tough Position on China, Friedman Says

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A Major Contraction in Jobs

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Some 140,000 Americans lost their jobs last month, the largest decline in employment since last April. Yet, the unemployment rate stayed at roughly 6.7...
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Daily Memo: The US Angers China, Kyrgyzstan’s New President

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Chinese warnings over Taiwan. The U.S. State Department announced this weekend that it had lifted restrictions on meetings with Taiwanese officials. This comes as...
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In Central Asia, a Timely Opportunity for Russia

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In our 2021 annual forecast, we noted that this year, like many years before it, Russia would try to add to its strategic depth...
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COVID-19: Vaccine Access and Distribution Problems

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