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: Iranian Diplomacy, Indian Food Supplies
Growing ties. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian arrived in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, his first visit to the kingdom since the restoration of ties in March. Saudi Arabia’s assistant minister of defense met a day earlier with a senior Iranian defense official on the sidelines of the Moscow Conference on International Security, where they […]
Daily Memo: China Boosts Presence in Central Asia and Warns of Potential Unrest
Chinese presence. Kazakhstan's trade turnover with China increased by 20.5 percent in the first half of 2023, driven partly by an 87.3 percent rise in trade with China’s Xinjiang...
Daily Memo: Russia Hosts Security Forum
Talking security. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Western countries of fomenting the conflict in Ukraine in a video address delivered at the Moscow Conference on International Security. He also...
Daily Memo: Russian Ruble Falls, Pakistan Suspends Russian Oil Imports
Blame game. The value of the Russian currency dropped on Monday to more than 100 rubles to the dollar, its lowest rate since March 2022, just weeks after the...
Tracking Japan’s Defense Modernization
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Since 2017, Japan’s spending on defense has been rising faster than its gross domestic product. The 2023 budget for the armed forces, known as the Japan Self-Defense...
Daily Memo: New Zealand Warns of Foreign Interference
Security threats. In its annual report, New Zealand’s Security Intelligence Service accused China, Iran and Russia of attempting to interfere in its domestic affairs. It noted that China in...
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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