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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...

Brief: Russia Wants More From Kazakhstan

Background: Russia made progress last year shoring up its southern and...

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Daily Memo: Sanctions and Trade Deals

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

A History of Warfare By John Keegan Waxing philosophical about war is nearly as old as...

What We’re Reading: US Power and Nationhood

Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold...

Egypt’s Last Chance

What options does a nation have when its future depends on another country’s decisions...

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...

In Central Asia, a Timely Opportunity for Russia

In our 2021 annual forecast, we noted that this year, like many years before...

Kuwait’s Struggle to Create a Modern State

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

The World in 2021

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

Life After Brexit

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On Dec. 21, France closed its border to the United Kingdom after reports of...

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...

European Union Economic Update

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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...

Understanding Trump

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...

The Storm Before the Calm

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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...

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

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...

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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