Geopolitical Futures

Geopolitical Futures (GPF) was founded in 2015 by George Friedman, international strategist and author of The Storm Before the Calm and The Next 100 Years. GPF is non-ideological, analyzes the world and forecasts the future using geopolitics: political, economic, military and geographic dimensions at the foundation of a nation.

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Daily Memo: Ethiopia Asks to Join BRICS

Expansion. Ethiopia has formally asked to join the BRICS grouping of emerging economies ahead of the bloc’s annual summit in August. Though Ethiopia has a growing economy, it’s still less than half the size of the smallest BRICS member, South Africa. Egypt, Algeria and Bangladesh have also reportedly applied to join. Russian partnership. Bolivia reached […]

Live Discussion: June 2023 Charter Member Discussion

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Daily Memo: Nagorno-Karabakh Update, EU Migration Plan

Nagorno-Karabakh dispute. At a meeting of the Armenian community in Marseille, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to apply more pressure on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev over the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute....

Daily Memo: Nagorno-Karabakh Deadlock, Russian Diplomacy

No breakthrough. The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan were in Washington on June 27, hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to discuss a peace treaty and...

Daily Memo: Western Officials Hold Talks With Georgia

Georgian links. Representatives of the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom arrived for talks in Georgia on Monday amid concerns that Russia’s neighbors are helping Moscow...

Daily Memo: Danish Defense, Moldovan Politics

Early delivery. Denmark’s Defense Ministry said it will retire its aging fleet of F-16 aircraft in 2024, three years earlier than expected, after announcing that it will receive its...

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