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What We’re Reading: March 6, 2018

Below you will find a list of books that members of the Geopolitical Futures team are currently reading. It highlights insightful and relevant books from around the globe and the reasons we chose them. China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa  By Howard W. French Many observers have […]

Watch List: March 6, 2018

North and South Korea get closer, U.S.-Pakistan relations, Japan scraps fighter jet

Trade War and the Correlation of Forces

Using a model for analyzing military conflicts, we weigh the cost of a trade war to the U.S. and to its trading partners.

Watch List: March 5, 2018

Italian elections reach stalemate, Kim Jong Un reached out to South Korea, Iran urges political solution in Syria

We Need to Talk About Europe

Now that Germany has finally formed a new government, the de facto leader of the EU can get back to being the de facto leader of the EU. But Italy has just elected into power parties that are less-than-friendly to Germany’s agenda. Jacob Shapiro and Cole Altom discuss how this peculiar era of nationalism is just one chapter in a much longer story about Europe. Sign up here for free updates on topics like these.

An Eventful Week in the Syrian War

Pro-regime forces have joined the battle for Afrin.

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