Allison Fedirka

Allison Fedirka is the director of analysis for Geopolitical Futures. In addition to analyzing and writing about global geopolitical issues, she helps train new analysts, oversees the intellectual quality of analyst work and helps guide the forecasting process. Prior to joining Geopolitical Futures, Ms. Fedirka worked for Stratfor as a Latin America specialist and subsequently as the Latin America regional director. She lived in South America – primarily Argentina and Brazil – for more than seven years and, in addition to English, fluently speaks Spanish and Portuguese. Ms. Fedirka has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and international studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s degree in international relations and affairs from the University of Belgrano, Argentina. Her thesis was on Brazil and Angola and south-south cooperation.

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The Silence By Don DeLillo Last week, a bunch of us Texans prepared for the worst as a winter storm pelted our homes with freezing rain and snow again. Now, this may seem absurd to northern GPF readers who manage to survive cold weather every year without incident, but recall that Texas’ power grid is […]

Venezuela Could Be the Next Front in the US-Russian Standoff

When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers. Few understand this better than Latin America, which has been drawn into disputes between great powers in North America and Eurasia...

What We’re Reading: Central American Integration

Puentes y Cercos: La Geopolitica de la integracion Centroamericana By Luis Campos Perez “Puentes y Cercos” (“Bridges and Fences”) explores the long-standing question of why Central America is not one unified...

The US Can’t Take Canada for Granted

There are no guarantees in geopolitics, but stability in the U.S.-Canadian relationship certainly comes close. However, a recent ruling by a panel under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement regarding Canada’s dairy...

Chile’s New President and the Polarization of South America

Last week, Chile held a presidential election that featured two candidates on absolute opposite ends of the political spectrum. On the far right was Jose Antonio Kast, a law-and-order...

What We’re Reading: Great Wars and Old Things

The Guns of August By Barbara W. Tuchman Over the past few months of Netflixing, my suggested viewing list has become increasingly filled with movies, documentaries and series about World War...

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