GPF Team

Mexican governments have always had a difficult time ruling over the outer reaches of their domain.

Turkey pushes ahead, Russian diplomats expelled, Saudis intercept missiles

With so much drama in the Middle East, it’s nearly irresponsible to focus on just one actor – emphasis on nearly. At GPF, we’ve long maintained that Turkey was a country on the rise, and the things we see it doing today are exactly the things a country on the rise would do. Time will tell if it will reach its full potential, so in the meantime, Jacob Shapiro, Xander Snyder and Cole Altom take a step back and reflect on how it’s faring right now. Sign up here for free updates on topics like these.

And if you’re looking for the special report on London that Jacob and Cole mention at the beginning of this podcast, you can find it here.

Protests in Bratislava, an assassination attempt in the Palestinian Territories, Russia considers defense cuts

Chancellor Angela Merkel did not emerge from German federal elections unscathed, but she emerged nonetheless. Now that she has, she must throw the full weight of her limited powers into halting the EU’s slow decline into irrelevance.

For all its recent threats, Washington doesn’t want a trade war.