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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Three Years of Tough Economic Policymaking
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The global economy over the past few years can be summed up in one word: volatile. Shocks to the market spurred high inflation across the globe that...
Daily Memo: Another Wave of Russia Sanctions
More sanctions. At the G-7 summit in Japan, the U.K. announced new sanctions against 86 Russian individuals and legal entities, including in the energy, metals, transport and finance sectors. Assets...
Daily Memo: Grain Deal Extension, Russian Labor Shortage
Grain supplies. Russia has agreed to extend a deal that facilitates the shipment of Ukrainian grain through Black Sea ports for another two months. The deal, reached last July...
Daily Memo: South Pacific Diplomacy, Microchip Availability
No-go. U.S. President Joe Biden has canceled visits to Papua New Guinea and Australia next week because of continued debt ceiling talks. Biden was scheduled to be in Sydney...
Daily Memo: Africa’s Peace Mission, Russia’s Arms Production
South Africa's role. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said his Ukrainian and Russian counterparts agreed to receive an African peace mission aimed at resolving the conflict in Ukraine. According...
Antonia Colibasanu on The John Batchelor Show: Russia Evades Sanctions
How did Russia prepare for round after round of sanctions from the West, and to a certain extent evade their impacts, following its invasion of Ukraine over one year ago? Antonia Colibasanu joins John Batchelor to discuss the history of Russian sanctions going back to its annexation of Crimea in 2014, and what the future holds for the Russian economy.
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Population Density of Canada
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Canada is one of those countries where a vast land mass obscures the fact that the country has a relatively small population. While Canada is the second largest country in the world, its 35 million inhabitants make Canada only the 39th most populated country.
Live Updates on Ukraine War
All times are approximate local time in Kyiv (GMT+2).
Friday, March 11
11:30 a.m.: The EU's foreign policy chief said the bloc would double its spending...
How the Ukraine War Will Likely End
FREEAs we consider how the war in Ukraine will end, we must first understand how it began. Russia invaded for geostrategic reasons – having...
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