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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Dark Clouds Over the Russian Economy
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International sanctions, disrupted logistics, rising prices and inflation expectations, and the difficulties of replacing banned imports with homegrown substitutes have placed heavy strain on the Russian economy....
Daily Memo: Russia Comments on Armenia and Plans to Delist Taliban
Security matters. Top security officials from the Russia-led Commonwealth of Independent States are holding a summit in Kazakhstan. At the gathering, the chief of Russia’s FSB intelligence agency, Alexander...
Daily Memo: More Signs of Trouble for Russia’s Economy
Weak performance. Russia’s services purchasing managers’ index fell to 50.5 points in September from 52.3 in August. Though not quite in contraction territory, it is still at a three-month...
Graphic Essay: Developing Southern Mexico
One of Mexico’s defining challenges as a country is the stark economic divide between its northern and southern regions. This disparity makes it extremely difficult for the government to...
Daily Memo: Developments in Israel, China-Russia Ties
Middle East escalation. Israel vowed to respond to Iran’s launch on Tuesday of about 180 ballistic missiles at Israel. Though many of the rockets were intercepted, some escaped Israeli...
Update on Ukraine
At a U.N. meeting in New York on Sept. 22, the G7 countries announced that they would provide a $50 billion loan to Ukraine. The announcement followed reports of...
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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...
The Geopolitics of the American President