Geopolitical Futures

Russian deficit. Russia’s Finance Ministry plans to make the governors of select regions personally responsible for the country’s ballooning budget deficit. The heads of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and Tuva, as well as the Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, would be required to undertake certain “obligations” to reduce the gap between regional […]

Deal reached. Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day cease-fire. According to various sources, Hamas will release 50 hostages it captured during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, while...

On this episode of Talking Geopolitics we conclude our subscriber-only limited series, Geopolitics in the 21st Century. Chairman George Friedman and host Christian Smith focus in on the big picture of geopolitics. There is a new order coming, but unlike the reordering that took place after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. How and why is the world changing? What will this new world look like when it's emerged?

Almost there. Israel and Hamas continue to progress toward a temporary cease-fire to allow the exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. The Israeli military radio network Galei Tzahal...

Code of conduct. The Philippines is seeking to develop a code of conduct for the South China Sea with other countries in the region like Malaysia and Vietnam, Philippine...

(click to enlarge) The idea of the Panama Canal suffering from water shortages may seem counterintuitive considering that it spans just 50 miles between two oceans. However, the functioning of...